THE MORNING OKEGONIAN, 3IONDAY. XOVEMKIT.
IV. 1018.
EFFICIENCY OF OCEAFd
POLICEMEN IS PROVED
Constant Presence of the Big
PERIL NOW IS - MINIMIZED
Snbmarinc Is One Topic on Sea Voy
age in AVar Time That
Aercr Is Exhausted.
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BY EDGAR B. PIPER.
Second letter.)
ABOARd"sHIP. EN ROUTE TO ENG
LAND, October 2. (Editorial Corres
pondence.) We have seen no sub
marines, though we have not for a
moment doubted the Kaiser's fell pur
pose to intercept and assault us, if he
pets the chance. There isn't a great
deal of chance, indeed, surrounded as
w e are 'by lively destroyers, and more
than one efficient-looking warship. The
constant presence of these mighty po
licynen of the sea should be reassur
ing, and it Is, in a measure. Logically
the U-boats can't fret at us, but the
Hermans are an onstinately illogical
lot of barbarians. Thousands of ships
have srone across tile Atlantic, under
the viftilant protection of American
and British warships, carrying- a'multi
tude of American soldiers, actual and
potential, and the losses have been al
most nil.
But we. have a notion that what the
Certnan hip-h command has really been
waitiner for, and conserving; ail his
forces to do. is to make one tremendous
effort to sink a ship containing 12 war
like editors, bound for the battle-front
to learn and tell the whole truth about
the war. We are fortified in that un
pleasant conclusion by the testimony of
practically all other persons aboard,
excluding the soldiers, who are too
busy trying to be comfortable to con
cern themselves about such trifles as
marauding U-boats.
Thriiline Stories Told.
larly reticent. But there are some 75
passengers, and quite a fraction of them
are old travelers who have many times
braved the. dangers of the ocean, and
have each to tell about personal en
counters with submarines. None of
them have been shot, or sunk, or killed,
but they have vivid recollections of
their experiences, and are easily per
suaded to tell about theijj. ,
A horse trader who has crossed the
Atlantic eight times since the war be
kuh was on a fast liner coming from
England last May, and a submarine got
in their way and fired 36 shots at them.
The 'cruiser responded, with 4 shots.
No casualties. v
An English merchant was in a. fleet
which was chased by one of the ter
rors, evidently awaiting its opportun
ity to catch some vessel napping, the
favorite strategy of the Hun captains
and an airship hove in sight from
out of the circumambient air, and
dropped a depth bomb on her; and that
was the finish of her the undersea
boat. Later he heard emphasis on the
"heard" that one of the convoy which
had left them, bound for India, was in
tercepted ty three of the monsters,
and sunk.
Depth Bomb Gets Hon.
A Canadian manufacturer was a pas
senger on a ship wh:ch was literally on
top of a. U-boat before anybody saw her.
Her captain tried to run her down, and
failed. The German maneuvered to get
into position to fire, and meanwhile a
depth bomb was dropped on her, and
the last eign anybody saw of her was
two legs of a German caught in the
wreckage kicking frantically as she
went down.
An English fur buyer was1 in a con
voy, and one of he: largest ships was
hit, but was kept afloat by great ef
forts for 22 hours; then a submarine
probably the same that had done the
first damage appeared at her side,
in the midst of the fleet, and drove a
torpedo in her, and sent her to the
bottom. A half-dozen British boats
went after the impudent German, and
destroyed her.
A sailor was on the Andania when
she was attacked, and got out by
jumping in the water with an oar. This
hero was interviewed at some length
iy Miixiuua passengers, Decause he was
regarded as probably the best qualified
expert on U-boats in the ship. He was
able to give, no assurance that our ship
would get over in safety. It might, of
course. Sometimes ships get through
all right. "But these Huns is every
where, damn 'em," he 6ays.
All Talk of Submarines.
So It goes. On every tongue are tales
of submarines, theories of submarines,
fears of submarines. It affords a small
measure of assurance to find that the
net losses of the allied and merchant
marines have vastly decreased, that
the net gains over them (August, 1918)
was 100,0(TD tons a month, and that in
all about ISO U-boats have been sunk
since the war began, more than half of
them in the past 1- months.
The total number of submarines built
by Germany is estimated by the British
to have been about 3S0. This leaves 200
of them still pursuing their destructive
courses: but it must be a fact-that the
increasing mortality among them has
discouraged, the average commander
and decreased the morale of the crews,
so that they are next so bold now or ef
fective as formerly.
It is more than ever true that the
undersea boat literally takes its life in
its hand when it embarks on a cruise
of terror and murder. Naturally it is
more cautious, as a rule. Here and
there is a captain of special enterprise
in bloodthirsty daring, and lie takes a
long chance. There are aces among
them as there are among the aviators;
but they meet their fate soon or late.
Safety Is Comparative.
The problem has not been wholly
solved by the allies, to be sure: but is)
has been measurably solved, so that
there is now a zone of safety (compara
tive) on the Atlantic, and we are pass
ing through it at this writing.
Precaution is not thrown to the wind
because we are thought to be distant
from the danger area. A piece of
wreckage hove irfsight off our star
board quarter yesterday and a patrol
boat turtjed swiftly in its course and
went for it. The sneaking device of the
enemy is to hide his periscope in ap
parently harmless floating debris and
fire at the unwary passer. A long
train of smoke .followed the vigilant
watchman craft, screening the fleet
from a possible enemy.
The passengers were rnore curious
than excited. They did iot quite know
how to Hccount for this sudden depart
ure from the placid routine of many
days, and they awaited results with
complacency, relatively speaking. There
were none, except that signals followed
between the destroyer and the forward
cruiser, and the onward march was re
sumed in order.
I-'lxhlng Boat Hit, Report.
The newest rumor is that two fishing
boats were run down last night by one
of the squadron, and that it had
dropped behind to rescue the unfortu
nate survivors. Whether there are.sur
vlvors, or whether thero was an acci
dent is all matter for passing conjec
ture, ii is true mat the fleet was
minus one of its units, and that later
it rejoined us. It did not deign to tell
us where it had been.
But there was no element of fancy
about ono detail of the day's happen
ings. A frail old man, said to be a
clergyman a Rev. Mr. Croucher trav
eling alone from Vancouver, B. C, to
London, where It was said he was to
Join his family, was seized with pneu
monia and died. The mordent made a
deep impression on all aboard.
A long and, doubtless, a useful career
as minister to the lame, th halt and
the blind, was ill ire ended miserably I
among strangers, without the touch of
a familiar hand or the sound of a
recognizable voice; and the useless
remnant of flesh was speedily con
signed to the waves, after a brief serv
ice, in presence of a small group of
sailors, soldiers and civilians. It should
be added that, while there is a good
deal of sickness, it is, except in a few
instances, not serious. Seasickness is a
curable malady.
Honor Post la Dangerous.
But let us not get away from the
all-inclusive subject of submarln.es.
One moot question is as to the best
position in the fleet. For long days we
have been runing along on the right
flank near a handy destroyer, and it
was argued with great weight that this
must be the post of honor, and also of
greatest risk, for here, most likely,
U-boats are known most frequently to
threaten.
The counter-suggestion was happily
made that in so great a fleet no saga
cious Hun commander would seek out
a single target but would surely fire
at the whole flock, thus making sure to
hit something. From this point of
view it appeared probable that the most
dangerous locality was the txact cen
ter, for it might be reached from any
side.
When light broke this morning and
anxious eyes looked abroad to note the
changes and possible casualties of the
night, it was seen thct we were the
central vessel. No great war authority
who will undo the mischievous work
of the amateur btrategist who got us
in this fix has yet appeared.
GERMAN PEOPLE -RISE
IN WRATH AT
Mad Design to Rule World Top
' pies Into Ruin.
GREAT EMPIRE SEEMS GONE
Social Kcvolution Changes Problem
of Allies to Restoration
of Order.
fCnntinu.d Fro-m First Pace.)
WASHINGTON HEALTH BOARD
ISSUES NEW ORDER.
Tte Wcn&rfi;! Call
Vfen Bsby Comss
Like do Blast of Heaven'y Trumpet
When Call of Motherhood Is Felt.
of all the most vital times in a woman's
life the coming of baby is fraught with the
rreatest meaning. ,Care should be exercised
to insure that the crisis is passed in safstv.
Apprehension is avoided by the tlmly
u.e of Mother's Friend, a preparation of
penetrating oils and medicinal ingredients,
w hich renders the muscle, cords, tendons
and ligaments pliable, and thus tension is
avoided. The usual nervousness, nausea,
bearing-down and stretching pains are coun
teracted and the period is one of calm re
pose. The broad, flat abdominal muscles relax
with ease, and when baby comes the time
at the crisis is less and pain and danger is
avoided.
Thousands of women for half a century
have used this penetrating external applica
tion, prepared especially for expectant moth
trs, and every woman awaiting the crisis
should give n lture a helping hand.
Write the Bradfield Regulator Company,
Iept. K. L,mar Building, Atlanta, Georgia,
for their Motherhood Book, of great value to
ail women, and obtain a bottle of Mother's
Friend from the druggist and begin its ap
plication re gu' a rly night and morning.
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Minimum Fine of $50 Provided for
Violation of Health Regulations.
VANCOUVER, Wash., Nov. 10. (Spe
cial.) Like it or not, the residents of
Vancouver will be masked this week,
by order of the State Board of Health.
All peace officers in Clarke County
were today notified that each one waa
liable to a minimum fine of 550 if they
failed to enforce the mask-wearing
edict of the State Board of Health.
All persons in public places will be
required to wear them where they meet
the public, such as at counters in
stores, sand in hotels and restaurants
and street cars. A person entering a
Place where meals are served, must
wear a mask over his mouth until he
is seated and served, and when in this
position, he may remove the mask and
proceed, fersons in private orfices, or
away from where they meet people,
will not be required to wear the masks.
The Vancouver police today notified
as many business places as possible,
that the enforcement of the edict will
begin tomorrow morning:. It is under
stood that business men will be held
responsible for patrons entering: with
out their masks. "iile the order has
been out for some little time, it has
not been enforced strictly, most of
those wearing; masks, permitting them
to hang around their necks.
EPIDEMIC BURDEN SHARED
Klamath Falls and County Assume
Influenza Costsv
KLAMATH FALLS, Or., Nov. 1
(Special.) By an agreement reached
between the County Court and the City
Council, the expenses incurred as a
result of the Spanish influenza epi
demic in this district will be shared
equally.
A Joint session was held to consider
the matter and it was decided to con
tinue the care of county cases at the
Klamath Falls isolation quarters as in
the past, where medical aid and com
petent nurses are available.
CUDAHY INCREASES STOCK
Packing Company Recapitalizes;
Additional Issue $15,000,000.
CHICAGO, Nov. 10. E. A. Cudahy,
president of the Cudahy Packing Com
pany, announces the details for re
capitalizing the company by authoriz
ing $15,000,000 new stock, giving stock
holders a 25 per cent stock dividend
and the right to subscribe to an
amount of new stock at par, equal to
2a per cent of their holdings.
Both rights accrue to stock of record
December -ew stock remaining
alter that time will be disposed of
later,
cially at peace. It3 system of espion
age, corruption and violence extended
over the world.
It was exemplified by the plots car
ried out in this country under the di
rection of the government for the de
struction of munition plants'and ships
before the United States entered the
war, and by the effort of the German
government to embroil this country,
then neutral, in war with Japan and
Mexico.
No capital of Europe was free from
German secret agents in the years pre
ceding the war, and the nations lived
in growing dread of the huge military
machine which tierratny was building
up, to the accompaniment of the'
Kaiser's boauts of the "shining sword"
and Germa-i toasts to "Dcr Tag" in
voices that echoed around the world.
, Kna Swift and Dramatic.
The virtual ending of this greatest
of conflicts has come with dramatic
swiftness.
Four months ago today the German
military power apparently was at its
height. The unchecked fortes of the
enemy had battered their way through
the French and British lines until 1'aris
was in danger and the British were
fighting with their backs to the wall
to prevent themselves from being forced
to the sea.
Late in July the world was thrilled
with the news of an allied counter at
tack between the Aisne and the Marne.
The Germans were hdrled back along
the whole sector and since that day
the victorious progress of the allies has
been maintained.
America Turned the Scale.
Various causes' have contributed to
this reversal. The entrance of America
into the struggle, with her vast re
sources of men and materials, is con
ceded by the allies to have turned the
scale. One of the most important ef
fects of this country's act was the
heartening to an enormous extent of the
wearied allied nations and a corre
sponding deterioration of German mo
rale.
Exhaustion of German raw material
and years of semi-starvation assisted
in the process of beating down the
enemy to a submissive frame of mind.
It is also significant that the estab
lishment of unquestioned allied suprem
acy in the field almost synchronized
with the unification of military con
trol and the appointment of General,
now Marshal Foch to the post of su
preme command.
Great Leaders Develop.
Military commentators without ex
ception lay stress upon the importance
of single leadership and the genius of
Foch in stemming and finally turning
the tide.
Among the individual leaders, aside
from Foch, whose names stand out
most prominently, are Marshal Joffre.
who saved France in her darkest days
of the Summer of 1914; Field Marshal
Haig. the British commander; General
Petain, the head of the French forces;
General Diaz, who, on the Italian front.
beat back last summer s great Austrian
offensive and later tore the Austrian
armies to pieces in a few weeks, and
General Pershing.
On the (ierman side are Field Mar
shal von Hindenburg, a comparatively
obscure officer who leaped into world
wide fame by his defeat of the Rus
sians in 1914 and subsequently became
the idol of Germany, and General Lu
dendorff, who, although frequently
credited with being the abler of the
two, never touched popular imagina
tion as did his colleague. When Von
Hindenburg was at the height of his
fame a great wooden image of the Ger
man hero was set up, a monument to
the power which now is broken. It
stands today in Berlin, unless the new
masters .of Germany have torn it do A n.
Excuse for War Recalled.
It was late in June, 1914, that the
world was stirred by the murder in
Sarajeva, Bosnia, of Archduke Francis
Ferdinand, the Austrian heir apparent,
and his wife. Austria, backed by Ger
many, accused Serbia of instigating the
crime and made demands which Serbia
accepted in part. Austria would not
agree to arbitrate the demands not ac
cepted by Serbia and the foreifrn offices
in London, Paris and Petrograd failed
to swerve Austria from her course.
Austria-Hungary began hostilities on
July 27. 1914, by attacking Serbia, and
within a week Germany had Joined her,
while France, Great Britain and Russia
had thrown tHdr forces against Ger
many and Austria. As the war went on
the number of natons involved increased
until the conflict became the greatest
in the history of the world.
Battle of Marne Vital,
declaring war on France, Germany,
on August 1. 1914, threw her armies
toward France by way of Belgium.
Fighting for the maintenance of their
neutrality, the Belgians checked the
oncoming horde for a time, but within
two months the Prussian armies were
within a few miles of Paris, from which
the French government had fled.
One of the vital moments of the war
had arrived. In a battle of dramatic
changes the enemy hordes were hurled
back to north of the Marne.
Turkey soon entered the war on the
side of Germany and Italy joined the
allies. Bulgaria came in with Ger
many and Serbia and Montenegro were
overrun.
United States Eaters War.
On April 6, 1917, the United States,
unable to force Germany by peaceful
means to conduct her ruthless subma
rine warfare in keeping with Inter
national law, threw her forces into the
struggle. - At that time the imperial
government of Rnssla had been over
thrown and provisional democratic gov
ernment instituted.
In Italy the armies of King Victor
Emmanuel were driving back the Aus
trians in - the Trentino and on the
Isonzo. The British and French were
hammering at the German lines with
little apparent results. The Autumn of
1917 witnessed the defeat of the Italian
armies and their retreat to the Fiave
line. Almost simultaneously American
troops appeared on the western front
for tho first time, while the British
and French armies were holding posi
tions of strategic importance from the
North Sea to Switzerland.
During the Winter of 1917-18 Amer
ican aid became effective and Russia
dropped out because of the Bolshevik
coup.
Last Blighty Effort Fails.
Germany at the beginning of 191S
announced her purpose to end the war
by an offensive in France. It was her
last mighty effort, and for weeks the
world wondered when the enemy hordes
would be stopped. The end at la:;t
cume ,oa July. XSt when Marshal JToch.
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launched th. American and French In
an attack. Since that fateful day for
Germany the allied armies on all fronts
have met with continued success.
Germany's ultimate defeat became
more certain as the Summer advanced.
The first break in the ranks of the cen
tral powers came with the defection of!
Bulgaria late in September. Turkey
signed armistice terms the last of Oc
tober and Austria-Hungary tendered
the white flag to Italy November 4.
when hostilities ceased on all the Aus
trian fionts. Germany attempted to
bring about a negotiated peace, but how
great was her failure is shown by the
fact that her emissaries are now at
Marshal Foch's headquarters for the
last scene of the world's great tragedy.
erations Friday following a shutdown
caused by an epidemic of Influenza
among the employes. The plant started
up earlier In the week, but an accident
to the machinery necessitated a second
shutdown.
Lumber Mill Itesnmn Operations.
CENTRALIA, Wash.. Not. 10. (Spe
cial.) The Black Diamond Lumber
Company'sTnlll In WInlock resumed op-
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