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TTIE 3IORXTNG OREGOXIAX, TUESDAY,
JULY 15, 1919.
KKIN WILL
'iiriT unni niu r
r
Dock Hands Refuse to Handle
Cereal Cargoes.
LOCAL STRIKERS HELPED
XVet Ce!tna Subject to Additional
Delay When Loading Crtms
Walk Off Wharf.
would not b delayed, and the port
would guarantee the same wagea aa are
finally agreed upon at other porta on
the coait The union at a special
meeting this afternoon rejected that
proposition, statins; that the men will
stay out until the entire matter Is ad
justed., COMMITTEE INSPECTING DOCKS
Water Front Conditions Are Subject
of Investigation.
Portland's waterfront will be under
investigation today, when the com
mittee appointed by direction of the
city council will begin its work. G. B.
Hegardc chief engineer for the dock
commission, will serve as chairman of
the committee with City Building In
spector Piumrner as secretary. Other
members of the committee include city.
county and fire department officials.
SOLDIERS SEEK RELEASE
AMERICANS IX BRITISH
EAGER FOR HOME.
ARMY
Red Cross Bungalow, Open Only, to
Tanks, Helps Men While
Away Long Hours.
BT MISS BERTHA SMITH, A. R. C.
LONDON. I visited Morn Hill camp,
Just outside the' old world-town of
Winchester, on the same day that th
United States military authorities in
England announced that there were
"only ten American soldiers left in the
camp." I beg to differ with the Amer
lean military authorities. There were
The committee working under, the about 12U0 Americans there that day.
authorization of the city council, the
dock commission and the county board
of commissioners will make a thorough
inspection, followed by specific recom
mendations to the various bodies which
will insure prompt remedy of improper
conditions. '
Coast Lumber Goes to Africa.
Rash of me to differ from established
authority? I will explain.
Members of the American expedi
tionary force. It is true, have gone
from this camp, sold their furniture
and handed the camp over to the Brit
ish war office. But it is now; being
used as a repatriation center for all
the men who came from overseas and
joined the British homeland forces. And
Further complications were added to I
the water front delays yesterday, when I
the loncinoxemen. wno up unm ion ts a t-twt- w t..i h ,c.
tlme had been loading f!our on vessels clal. The David Evans, a four-masted Tk0g ''"'k" tnmnnCf-".
in the harbor, refused to work a cargo I schooner, is finishing loading her cargo
of flour aboard the shipping board I at the Quinault mill in this city. She is
steamer West Celina at Montgomery I taking TJO.000 fet of lumber to Cape-
dock No. -. The West Celina is about I town. Mutn Africa, fche carries a crew
one-third loaded with wheat and has of ten men besides her captain
been delayed since July 6. at which I discharging her cargo at Capetown on
time the local arain handlers' union I her last trip she was sent to the Fiji
demanded a vis of 80 cents an hour. I Islands for a cargo of copra for San
which Is the rate paid longshoremen
but which u refused by the food ad
ministration grain corporation.
ettlesrat Seen Rrsiatr.
Although several attempts have been
ir.ar'e at conciliation between the wheat
handlers and the dork operators here.
no tt!ement satisfactory eitner to
The camp has nearly 10,000 inhabi
tants. There are Britons who heard
the call to fight when they were bear
ing the white man's burden. in many
After! far"f Places, administering justice to
directing yellow labor on the rubber
plantations in the east or carrying
. cv. .. . .i.. i.., European enterprise into Latin Amer
r rancisco. ne was nine months on herl , . , , . . , ,
last trip. Captain Spicer lives at Ho
quiam and his wife and two daughters
have been here visiting him during the
time the vessel was here.
Movements of Vessels.
PORTLAND. Julr 14. Sailed at S P. M
government officials or the strlKers nas I Steamer Atlas tor tun Francisco. Sailed at
9 P. M. Steamer City of Topeka for Kan
Francisco. Eureka and Coos Hay. Arrived
at I A. If. Steamer City of Topeka. from
ban Franclaco. fcureka and Coos Bay.
ASTORIA, July 14 Sailed at 8 J0 last
alfht gleamer Aculeo. tor Ufimafcy. ng.
been made. Yesterday every effort was
msde by arain corporation authorities
and representatives of the dock oper
ators to reach a satisfactory under
standing so thai the West Celina. which
has her crew on board and Is In com
plete Idleness as far as actual loading
operations are concerned, could com
plete cr and proceed on her way to
th Atlantic roaM.
Tetrday. after the shipping board
had sanctioned th placing of flour on
the t .el!na. a full crew of long- I garuta. from Grays Harbor and Portland.
shoremen reported, at jiortgomery oock.
but after a look about the dock and a
talk with grain handler, refused to
move flour on the veasel. Today the
West Celina will shift to the St. Johns
terminal, where 4j00 tons of flour are
awattinr removal to her hold. On ac
count of the stand taken yesterdsy by
the local longshoremen it Is not ex
pected that cargo will be placed in the
hipping board ateamer.
Draatle Mriaim .May Be Takea.
"It Is apparent that drastic measures
must be taken to cope with the present
diaaetrous situation." said Max Houser.
ice-president of the L'nlted States
grain corporation. I have endeavored
In every way to effect a conciliation so
'that further delays msy be avoided, but
am no nearer an agreement than a
week ago. The shipping board, has
sanctioned the placing of flour on -the
Weet Celina. but the action of the long-
SAX FRANCISCO. July 14 Sailed at -
P. M.: Steamer ISrnest H. Meyer, for Port
land. Sailed at 3 A. M. yesterday bteamer
Willamette for Portland.
BALBOA. July 11. Arrtvad Steamer Ar-
HII.O. July 10 Sailed Steamer Bee, for
I Columbia river.
SAN' FRANCISCO, July 14. Arrived
Steamers Centralis, from Eaenada: Anp
Mara (Jap.), from balina Crux; Coalinoa.
from Balboa: Governor, from Victoria.
u!led Steamers Fred ilaxter. for Seattle;
Ernest II. Meyer, for Portland.
SZATTt.B, Wash.. July 14. Arrived
Steamer Captain A. F. Lucas, from. San Pe
dro: Wankeena. from San Francisco; Jef
ferson, from southeastern Alaska.
Sailed Steamer Lyman Stewart, for
Oleum.
I; St A.
la 41 P.
Tide at Astoria Tuesday.
M 13 feet 33 A. M T feet
M 7 feet 50 P. M 2.4 feel
Pacific Coast Shipping Notes.
tea or acting as solitary outposts of
free civilisation in little-known corners
of the globe. There are Americans and
Canadians and Australians and New
Zealanders. who have "done their bit'
with the British forces.
These men are now longing to get
back to their peacetime labors and
peacetime homes. Gradually they are
being drafted in and out of Morn Hill
camp, where they go through all the
formality of ceasing to be soldiers and
of getting a free passage home.
No. 2 company at the camp consists
of Americans men who joined the
British army because it offered them
an early opportunity to fight for free
dom and Justice. There are about 1200
of them in the camp now and the au
thorities expect 15,000 will pass
through during the next eight months.
It was these men I went to the camp
to see and I found some hundreds of
them in what may be regarded as their
own "best parlor.' It is a concrete
clubhouse, 175 feet long by 45 feet
wide. On one side the windows open
on the main roadway of the caii p. op
posite the quarters of those men wno
are awaiting repatriation to the Argen
tine. Over the main entrance flutter
two big flags, the Stars'and Stripes and
the Red Cross, for this is the "Amer
ican Red Cross club" for the United
States citixens in the camp.
It is open daily to men who hold
membership card and to their properly
introduced guests from other coun
tries. Membership is free, but limited
to American citizens.
The windows on the other side over
look
10.056, the lowest shown for any year
save 1913.
The death rate for the registration
areav of the United States, embracing
27 states, the District of Columbia and
43 cities in non-registration states, or
a population of about 7a. 000,000, was
14.3 per 1000 of population.
The total number of deaths wa
1,06S,9?2, nearly one-third being due to
three causes heart disease, pneumonia
and tuberculosis. This report is not
from all sections of the country, as it
only embraces 27 states, the Disrict
of Columbia and 43 cities in the non
registration states, or a population of
75,000.000.
Heart disease is a leader among the
killing ailments with which American
people are afflicted, and while a slight
decrease compared with the previous
year during 191S it carried off 115.33(
persons, a tribute to the strenuous life
and to )ri(iiilipno, whirh nvArrav thn
delicate organ. Pneumonia, always a
consistent killer, was responsible for
deaths, while tuberculosis
claimed a toll of 110,285. The records
reveal marked result of the campaign
of education on the part of medical
authorities against the white plague.
since more deaths resulted from the
disease up to 1912 than from any other
natural cause.
Deaths from other diseases rank In
the following order: Bright's disease.
apoplexy, cancer (38 per cent resulting
rrom cancer of the stomach and liver),
diarrhea, arterial diseases, influenza,
diabetes, diphtheria, bronchitis, ty
phoid, measles, etc.
The greatest number of deaths
charged to one accidental cause is from
falls, which amounted to 11,114. while
o49 resulted from railroad accidents.
There were 6724 persons killed as the
result of automobile accidents, which is
substantial increase in number - of
automobiles in use. Of the accidental
causes they rank in the following or
der: Drowning, asphyxiation, mine ac
cidents, vehicles other than railroad
cars, street cars, machinery accidents,
etc
STEAMER HATES TOO NIGH
ALASKA'S GOVERNOR ALARMED
FOR TERRITORY'S FUTURE.
Publicly Owned Passenger and
Freight Steamship Line Is Advo
cated in Message to Legislature.
JUNEAU. Alaska. Alaska gradually
ill lose population and revort to a
vast territory, unpeopled save for the
seasonal fishing population and opera
tives of a few great mines if lower
steamship rates from the outside world
cannot be obtained. Governor Thomas
Riggs, Jr.. declared in a message to
the last Alaska territorial legislature
here.
The governor's message advocated
the consideration of the establishment
of a territorially owned passenger and
freight steamship line to complete with
the Drivatelv owned lines which - od-
rallroad spur in the course of erate from Seattle. A line owned by
i
ioit.a.
rks
eirWonders
Titles of
booklets
Ask for the one
you want;
National Parks
Crater Lake
Oregon
Glacier
Grand Canyon
Arizona
Hawaii
Hawaiian Islands
Hot Springs
Mesa Verde
Colorado
jVlotnxt Ratnlfff
Wsshangtom
RjOcJcy Mountain
Colorado
Seqnoa Gen. Grant
nleia
Yellowstone
Wyoming
Yoeemlte
ICssaaSOssassssI .SSOOBaBaSZtaal
PetrifW Force
AKE this a summer of vacation
travel. Glorious out-of-door
playgrounds beckon you. Heed the
calL - Get away and know the scenic beauties of your
own land. Summer excursion fares, . ,
Every American should visit the National Parks.'
They are the nation's playgrounds. Not only do you
see peaks and canyons, glaciers and geysers, big trees'
and volcanoes, prehistoric ruins and Indians you
here see the old wilderness places of this country the
Far West and the Old West practically unchanged.
i
In this vast region you can "rough it" can camp
out, climb high peaks, go fishing and ride horseback.
Around the corner, so to speak, are miles of auto boule
vards, modern resort hotels, and comfortable camps.
Ask the local ticket agent to help plan yorrf trip, or apply to the nearest
Consolidated Ticket Office, or address nearest Travel Bureau, United
States Railroad Administration, 646 Transportation Bide., Chicajoj
143 Liberty Street, New York City; 602 Healcy Bide-, Atlanta, Ga.
United -States Raiiio3b Adm -
Consolidated Ticket Office
Third and Washington Streets
Portland, Oregon
pro-
horemrn has stopped such
cedure.
At Astoria the refusal of the long
shoremen to trim wheat on the steamer
West Istay still continues. The West
lalajr is the flrsc vessel assigned to load
bulk wheat at Astoria, and as there is
no grain handlers' union there that
work was to have been performed by
members of the longshoremen's union.
As this work is new and no rate had
been In vogue for the handling of bulk
wheat the longshoremen struck for a
wage of $1 an hour, which was refused.
Although it was reported that the long
shoremen would start loading the West
Islay yesterday noon, announcement
last night was that no attempt had been
made lo put cargo In the vessel.
STEAMER METUKO IS SOLD
ASTORIA. Or.. July 14. (Special.) The
Hshtbous tnder Mansantta. Captain Mo
dr, sailsd this morning for Wlliapa har
bor, where she is to get a gas buoy. Chief
snmnnr Binder, of the tender Mansanlta,
la taking a month's vacation, which he will
apnl In British Columbia.
i. O. Harlosr of Milwaukee. Or., w-aa
fined S10 by tha customs department today
for failure to have his license number prop
erly posted on bis boat. ft. Williams of
Knappton. Wah.. was fined a similar
amount for selling a boat and neglecting
to notify the customs department.
The steam schooners K. S. Loop and May-
flirt irt due from Fajn Francisco en route
to Portland.
ABERDEEN'. Wash.. July 14 (Special
The steamer Carmorf arrived Sunday after
noon and Is loading at the Hulbert mill.
Aberdeen.
Colombia River Bar Report.
XORTH HEAD. July 14. Condition of the
bar at i P. St.: Sea. moo:h; wind, north, 18
miles.
construction by German prisoners to
the other wing of the camp, against
background of the cultivated, undulat
ing beauty of this part of England. A
man in hospital uniform told me it re
minded him of the country around Mai
den. Mass.
This man. whose name is Tyler,
joined a lumber company immediately
after the United States declared war
and has spent a happy year up In the
north of Scotland cutting timber. He
had brought as his guest to the club
his hospital chum, a biaw Scot with
leather splint about his head, who
smilingly explained he had just come
to "look after Sammy."
The hut is gay with Innumerable
Stars and Stripes, allied flags, the Red
Cross and Chinese lanterns. Each of
the territory could operate for lower
rates, the governor argnued. m
"I realise that I am advocating
most radical and startling departure
from accepted standards, the gover
nor's message said. "The first impulse
is to characterize the scheme as im
practicable. It is not impracticable:
it is distinctly practicable andwill al
io wthe territory to take on rewened
life.
"Every other -question sink'l to in
significance, for back of it all remains
the basic fact that unless relief is af
forded us in our most vital need monies
expended on roads, schools, charities
and all other constructive projects con
stitute merely stop-gap measures.
nver to hftar fruit."
Ocean lanes, it was pointea out, are
j Zim j
KclMPortland Ron Will Be H.n- S MORALE IS STRONGER
died in Xew Service.
Secretary Lane Says American imty
Renewed by War.
CHAPEL HILL. N. C. War's great
accomplishments are possible. Secretary
I-ane told the graduating class ot tne
University of North Carolina, because
war forces unity of purpose on men and
nations.
Its aftermath of revolutionary dis
content, he said, comes because war's
cessation leaves mankind without a
common definite purpose for which to
strive, and be suggested as a remedy
the possibility of building out of the
war spirit to renewed unity to create a
better society.
This fs war's superior claim," he
said. "Not its blood-letting, but Its
definiteness. Men do as they have
never done: they accrpt leadership
WORK I gladly. Power comes to them that is
abnormal. The force of the world is
multiplied.
War's objectives are gained by quick
several stoves is the center for a group tne ony routes Alaska has to the out
er men wno sit in tne comionaDie pas
ket chairs and smoke and read Amer
ican magazines or spin yarns of peace
and war and all the wide world they
have traveled
An old men, with wrinkled face and
yellowteeth, teljs in his even-toned
side world and if the lanes are blocked
by high prohibitive rates, Alaska will
not prosper.
To carry out the governor s sugges
tion the legislature authorized the ap
pointment of a territorial shipping RFRM AMY'S fIFPFR WFAPflN
were Captain Robert Goelet and Ogden
Mills. Captain Goelet as stationed in
Pasrr with the AmeriAn intelligence
service there. He is to act as escort to a
Danish commission which will soon
make a tour of the United States.
Captain Richard Peters, aether pas
senger, is said to be the oldRt member
of the American expeditionary forces.
He is 69 years old and served as liaison
officer with the 26th division. For his
work at Chateau Thierry and at St.
Mihiel Captain Peters, whose home is
in the Knickerbocker club in this city,
received the croix de guerre with two
stars.
Other army officers on board the ves
sel said that Captain Peters worked un
der fire most of the time and was every
bit as active as the youngest soldier
in the A. E. F.
KELaO. Wash, July 14 (Special.)
A. K. Hayes has purchased the steamer
Mtlako and will put it on the Kelso
to I'ortlanti run as soon as it Is over
hauled. It is now- in the dry dock n
i'orttaiid and will be ready for oervlce
within a few weeks.
Mr. Hayes recently purchased a dock
and 400 feet of water front Just north
of the depot, and has built a ware
house on the dock. He has made an
application for a crossing over the
railway, as the present road from the
dock crosses the loading platform of
the Thompson-Kord Lumber company
and makes hauling of freight incon
enlent. The Metfako will make a round trip
from Tort land to Kelso every day in
the week, layinar over Sundays.
voice of his several campaigns. He
joined at a British recruiting mission
because he was too old for the young
army of his own country. Beside him
board to get lower rates from the
steamship companies or to work for the Financial Writer Judges Allies Ac-
ebitiuHbiiiiicii c ui lerriiunaiy owneu
line.
Governor
Riggs has been named
a round-faced boy looked up from his chairman of the shipping board. Mau-
perusai oi m n' rice Leehey, a Seattle attorney, has
smilingly that he will be 18 next month. bcen empi0yed by the board to handle
No campaign stories, ever, we hope, for the board's business. Leehey is in
him to tell. He has had ten months washinarton at nresent and mav en-
of rather meaningless movement in aeavor to have congress pass a reso-
strange places among mrange peoples, utlon authorizing Alaska to bond it
self for Jo. ooo. ooo to obtain money for
cording to Old Standard.
BERLIN. Richard Calwer, financial
rriter, believes that Germany's offer
of financial indemnity supplies her
enemies with a weapon which may en
courage them to force her to pay a still
larger sum than that offered. He
writes:
"Germany, they will say, appears to
be still quite solvent and her credit, un
impaired if she is able to offer a gold
indemnity of one hundred billion on her
own initiative. If she volunteers that
much, she is in reality capable of ex
ceeding that limit, will be the enemies'
logic, and it is surprising to think this
had not occurred before to men respon
sible for the offer."
AMERICAN WRITERS UNITE
Correspondents in London Organ
ize Protective. Men's Asociation.
LONDON. The Association of Ameri
can Correspondents In London, which
has as its object the promotion of co
operation among its members, and the
protection of their interests, has been
organized- This organization includes
in its membership representatives of
all the important American newspapers
and news agencies. Its members reach)
reaaers in every part oi tne United,
States. The officers are:
Edward Price Bell, Chicago Dailj;
news, president; .Ernest Marshall, Mew
York Times, vice-president; Arthur S.
Draper, New York Tribune, secretary;
John S. Steele, Edward Marshall Syndi
cate, Inc., treasurer.
The executive committee consists of"
Robert M. Collins, the Associated Press:
E. L. Keen, the United Press: Hat
O'Flaherty, the New York Sun; Henry
Hyde, the Chicago Tribune: James M.
Tuohy, the New York World.
300 Bolshevik! Captured and Shot.
TOKIO. A dispatch from Harbin
states that 300 Bolshevikl were cap
tured near Irkutsk lately and shot to
death. It is declared that there -are
about 4000 Bolsheviki west of Irkutsk
in the direction of Krasnoyarsk.
A bicycle tire invented in Europe is
made of closely coiled steel wire.
Read The Oregonlan classified ad.
SHIPYARDS
RES I' ME
but no active service, for November 11
came too quickly for him, though so
slowly for suffering Europe.
His army experiences have given him
a wholesome desire to get back to
mother's cooking in his Rochester
home and to roam no more where boys
form fours all day and take their turn
at night picket duty.
' At little tables men, all in British
uniform, are writing home on Red
Cross paper to tell how soon they hope
the steamship line.
ITALIAN LAUGH
AT U. S.
Says Latins
Returning Churchman
Amused at Prohibition Move.
NEW YORK. Casual officers and
enlisted men of ..he American expedi-
11,000 Men Back on Job in Steel
Root riant.
Steel shipbuilding yards at Portland
yesterday resumed active -rk after a
rest of ten das. during which tjme re
pairs to machinery were made and
rd materials checked. tlo.e to 11,
who seek to use the powers it devel
ops for the uplifht of mankind when
peace comes.
"Out of the war we have come wish
ing that men may fashion the mi-
men were back at their accus-1 chinery by which the adventurous pur-
to be back in the best little town in the I tionary forces to the number of 363 who
worid ana eacn Doy cans tnat town arrved in New York on board the Sa
by a different name. Then they post .nirrM sinrm weather for
and sudden efforts, because it aims at their letters in the Red Cross mailbox, considerable portion of the voyage from
destruction, and this misleads many wnicn a ooy scout empties into nis France. The troops were under the
canvas oag ana tne itea iross automo-
tnmed places and every yard reported
construction proceeding as usual.
At the I'olumpij !:ier Shipbuilding
corporation t; men resumed work,
at the Northwest Steel company 42O0
and at the Albina Engine & Machine
Work J' workers responded at the
starting heir.
sHirs LOADcrc is delayed
Axorla Grain Handlers and Long
shoremen 'Want Wage Rise.
ASTORIA. Or.. July 14. (Special.)
The erneraency fleet steamer West
lav has been lined and is now ready
to begin leading bulk and sacked grain
at the port terminals. The work Is
delayed, however, by a strike of the
grain handlers and lonsshoremen. Here
tofore the scale has been 75 cents an
hour fur gram handlers, but now trie
men demand cents an hour for dock
workers and It an hour for the trim
mers on board ship. The men also de
mand a closed shop not only on the
U" 'm but the elevator as well.
posefulnesa of war may be carried over
into peace, believing somehow It will
be so because we wish it.
"Ours in America Is not a work of
reconstruction. The morale of this
nation is stronger, not weaker, for our
adventure. We were walking in the
right way before, and now we shall go
faster.
"War has been an accelerator to an
Impulse that was expressing itself in
business and politics, in our literature
and all our life, an impulse to serve
men."
Reviewing the failures of present
day society to bring comfort and hap
piness to all. he asked for a spirit to
"fight Ignorance. Injustice and disease
as w ell as you fight men," with ac
complishment as sure.
bile carries it to the city that a thou
sand years ago was England's capital.
And that is the first stage of the let
ter's Journey to a New York tenement
or a Missouri farm or a pretty home
at Oatlands. as the case may be.
At other tables other men are play
ing games to kill the time too much
time to kill is the worst grievance at
the camp. The majority are men who,
on account of age or physical defects,
were turned down by the United States
army and bethought them of the wide
welcome of the British mission. Many
of them are men who thought more
quickly than the rest of their nation
and who did, one or two years in ad
vance, what the national conscience
eventually told the whole nation to do.
And while English girls are calcu
lating their pay at the camp offices
and other English girls are typing
their card Index records and the wires
are busy about their berths, they pass
away the time in their camp home the
guests of the American Red Cross.
command of Lieutenant P. V. R. Miller,
a regular army officer, who saw service
on the western front with the 89th di
vision. The casuals were bound for
various demobilization ' camps, their
homes being scattered all ocor the
United States.
Among the 204 civilians on board the
vessel was Mgr. Francis J. Kelley of
Chicago, who had been abroad three
months In the Interests of the catholic,
Church Extension society of the United
States. He aid he had an audience with
Pope Benedict XV and found bim in
excellent health and spirits.
The Italians think it is a great joke
on Americans that this coutry should
turn prohibition on July 1, he said.
They are poking all kinds of fun at
Americans through their newspapers
and at various functions, where speak
ers take a friendly slap at America's
change ot heart on the liquor ques
tion.
Two prominent American passengers
TRAVELERS' GUIDE.
EX-EMPEROR IS BERATED BRITISH ENTER
thm mm to loid th piMmfr phe
KEEP IT SWEET
Keep yoar stomach
sweet today and ward
off the indigestion of
tomorrow try
KK30ID5
the new aid to diges
tion as pleasant
and as safe to take
as candy.
MADE BT 5C0TT B0VHE
AUKS OF SCOTT'S EMULSION
Vkc-Adnilral Giles Causes of Break
down of German Fleet.
BERLIN. (Correspondence of the
Associated Press.) The former German
This morning the port officials asked emperor is termed superficial. -a gam
bler, "a dilettante of the worst kind and
the worst enemy Germany has had
since 130. by tce-Admlral r oss in
his revelations entlteld. "Disclosures
About the Breakdown. The vice
admiral charges that the emperor let
things drop that he had espoused pas
sionately, after he had lost Interest In
them. In his conviction that he under
stood everything the former emperor.
he says, went so far aa to participate in
a contest arranged by the navy depart
ment for plans to construct an armored
cruiser.
The vice-admiral ascribes the break
down of the fleet to lack of decision
and civilian courage among the off!
ct-rs. lack of discipline and forgetful
ness of duty, even undeniable cow.
ardice.
Vice-Admiral Foss gives as the causes
or war. flrsc the "pecularltles of the
German people." second, that of the
emperor and third, the huge power In
the hands of the emperor. He takes the
leaders to task and says. Admiral Von
Tirpits was not a proper leader, that
Von Scheer carried out the Skagerak
fight with faulty tactics, that Von
Hoetit ndorff was Incompetent but was
made chief of staff because of his re
lationship and friendship with Admiral
Von Mueller and Herr Ballin.
Censorship of American Mails Xot
Aid to Trade Rivals.
LONDON. Dispatches from New
Tork relating to the complaint of the
Merchants' Association of New Tork to
the American postmaster-general that
British censorship of American mails
was being used for the benefit of Brit,
ish business interests, have aroused
widespread discussion in business and
trade circle in Great Britain.
Thd question whether this is true has
been put in Parliament and the flnan.
ciat secretary to the war office replied
that In no case have sufficient partic
ulars been supplied to enable the sttae-
ment to be investigated; that w-ithout
any particulars it was. however, pos
sible to give a definite assurance, that
at no time had the British censorship
been employed to help British firms at
tne expense or their rivals in allied or
neutral countries.
denials SAN FRANCISCO
S. S. Rose City
HEART CASES INCREASE
Due to
Many American Deaths
Strenuous Life.
"WASHINGTON. Deaths from hot
weather causes during 1917 were 1964.
substantial increase compared with
the year before, according to figures
announced by the United States consus
bureau. The number of suicides was
Depart 12 Noon
SUNDAY, JULY 27
From Ainsworth Dock
Fare includes Berth and Meals.
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Phone Main 3530
Freight Office, Ainsworth Dock
Phone Broadway 268
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Sailings, Tuesdays, Thursdays and
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