The Sunday Oregonian., October 25, 1914, Section One, Image 1

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VOL. XXXIII XO. 43.
PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 23, 1914.
PRICE FIVE CENTS,
BATTLE INTENSELY
HEAVY IN BELGIUM
Yser Canal Still Obsti
nately Defended.
ARMIES SENT FROM BRUGES
fighting Reported to . Be of
Most Sanguinary Character.
PARIS SHOWS UNEASINESS
Pate of French Capital ' Believed
-. - Again In Balance Engagements
in Progress Within Hour's
Bide by Motor.
LONDON, Oct. 24. Fierce fighting is
going- on. In the district between Nieu
port and Ostend, as well, as around
Thourout, 'Thlelt and Deynze, ' accord
ing: to a late dispatch received by the
Reuter Telegram Company from Sluls,
Holland, by way of Amsterdam.
The Ysrer Canal is being: obstinately
defended by the Belgians." the dispatch
continues. "The bombardment was kept
up all night, but this morning; (Satur
day) both sides rested for a while.
At noon heavy firing: was resumed, but
the battle has not yet been decided.
Germans Guard Lighthouse.
"The Germans are guarding the light
house at Knocks, close to the Dutch
frontier on the North Sea, as a measure
of precaution agrainst a possible landing:
by the British. The sand dunes are
also being - guarded. German marines
have occupied the village of Koyst and
the villages between Stuis and Bruges.
"Great movements of troops have
taken place from Bruges and yester
day an army corps arrived from Ant
werp, Bruges and Ghent on its way to
Thourout and Westende, from which
point many wounded .are being brought
back. Long trains conveying wounded
soldiers have arrived at Bruges, where
it is Impossible to accommodate all the
unfortunates. -
. Fighting ! Sunisur,
"The fighting has been of a
sanguinary character. One German
soldier relates that at one point be
tween Ostend and Nleuport 1500 of his
comrades were buried In a single
Held."
PARIS. Oct 24. With no decisive
news of the battle on which the safety
of the capital, and perhaps of France
Itself is believed to depend, anxiety in
Paris has been Increasing all the week.
Fighting Is proceeding within one
hour's ride of Paris by swift motor,
when the roads are clear.- Some per
sons say that when the wind Is right
cannonading can be heard north of the
city.
Sense German Advances Admitted.
The official report today, while as
serting some advances had been made
by the allies, was disquieting because
of other admitted advances by the Ger
man!. It was also reported in Paris,
but not officially, that the Germans
were drawing their net closer around
Verdun.
The French field army must hold the
Germans back, it Is admitted, to save
the fortress, which, it Is admitted. Is
as little likely' to withstand bombard
ment by the big siege guns as the forts
In Belgium at which they were directed.
The French aviators continue to give
proof of courage, at the same time add
ing considerably to the list of German
dead. One bomb thrown during an as
sembly of cavalry killed 30 of the
enemy.
In another case two bombs killed
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AMSTERDAM. Oet. 34 vlu I-ondom.)
A dispatch from Berlin aaya It Is of
ficially announced there that the Ger
man submarine which sarnie the British
cruiser Hawke has now returned safely
to port. The sinking; .of . the British
steamer Glltera of Leila: by a German
submarine near the Norwegian coast la
also officially confirmed.
BORDEAUX. France, ' Oct. 24 (via
Paris.) Minister of War Alexandre
Mlllerand, on - the representation of
Fernaad David, Minister of Agricul
ture, has given leave to the territorial
reservists, under arms at depots of the
Interior, that they may nork IS days
sowing; crops - cither for themselves or
others. This Is done In the general
Interests of France.
lOXDOX, Oct. 24. The Karweglai
steamer Heimland, which had been re
ported from Amsterdam aa sunk, prob
ably fy a mine, nrrlvea at Aberdeen
today bringing the crew of the Brit
ish steamer Cormorant, which was de
stroyed by a mine recently. . The Helm
land came from Amsterdam.
LONDOJT, Oct. 24. A private Berlin
dispatch, according; to the correspond
ent of the Central News at Copenhagen,
saya that the battle raging: between
Nleuport and Dlxmude is the most vio
lent and most important of the war.
He adds that Zeppelins are said to have
given the Germana considerable sup
port. LOSIDOX, Oct. 24. The French ship
Marie Henrlette, with wounded soldiers
on board, la ashore near Cape Barf leur,
IS miles east of Cherbourg, according to
a telegram received here- from Lloyd's
signal stations at Cowes, Isle of
Wight.
LONDON, Oct. 2-t. A German subma
rine has been reported sunk by the
British destroyer Badger off the Dutch
coast. The Badger's bow was somewhat
damaged. The official announcement
waa -made today.
BERLIN, Oct. 24. (By wireless.) In
the newspaper Fopolo Romano, the
Italian General, Bomplanl, estimates the
strength of the Germany army at B,
000,000 thoroughly Instructed soldiers
and 4,000,000 recruits.
' LONDON, Oct. 34. The Petrogrud
correspondent of the Central News
sends the following! "Soldiers from
the Warsaw front say that Emperor
William was personally on the field
of battle. He waa almost taken a cap
tive, barely escaping; by automobile.
AMSTERDAM vla London), Oct. 25.
All Japanese efforts to capture the
German . positions at Tslngr-Tau have
failed, saya a 'message to the North
German Gasette, of Berlin. The Japan
ese losses are - said to have reached
20O0 killed and wounded. The German
losses also are heavy.
BERLIN, Oct. 24.. via London. The
Frankfurt Zeltung Says that two Japa
nese men-of-war and the British . man-
of-war Triumph have bombarded the
Tslngr-Tan forts bat without result so
far. The upper deck of the Triumph
was pierced oa October 14 by a shot
from a heavy howitzer. The German
gunboat Jagruar was slightly damaged."
LONDON, Oct. 34. "A British fleet Is
lying off the Dardanelles. The thunder
of Its gruns has been heard at Madltor
(probably Maldos)," saya a dispatch
received- here from Berlin by the Mar
coni Wireless Telegraph Company.
CHAMPAGNE SUPPLY SAFE
Great Cellars of Rhelms Suffer Little
From Invasion.
LONDON. Oct 24. The correspond
ent of the Dally Telegraph, who . left
the front near Rhelms about a week
ago, says the bombardment of Rheims
was still in progress on Friday, Octo
ber 16. He continues:
"The wonderful champagne district
toward which the Germans cast covet
ous eyes, bas been 'really but little
damaged. The growers and vinters
are confident of excellent results from
this year's crop. The great cellars
suffered but slightly, as the amount of
wine which the Invaders could con
sume made only a small Inroad ' upon
the millions of bottles In the stocks
of the leading cellars, many of which
run for miles underground."
PICTORIAL SIDELIGHTS ARE CAST BY CARTOONIST REYNOLDS
BATTLE OF VERDUN
IS VITAL TO ARIVIIES
Germans Leveling Bar
rier Forts.
BIS MORTARS IN ACTION
Concealed Armies Give Im
pression of Deserted Field,
COUNTRY SEEMS AT PEACE
War Machines Pounding- Shells Into
Banks of Foe Seem Like Great
Industrial Operations Ans ',
trlan Guns Employed.
WITH THE GERMAN ARMY BE
FORE METZ. Sept 30 (by courier to
Holland, and mail to . New York.)
(Correspondence of Associated Press.)
A flve-day trip to the front has taken
the correspondent of the Associated
Press through the German fortresses of
May e nee, Saerbruecken and Metz,
through the frontier regions between
Metz and the French fortress line from
Verdun to Toul, Into the actual battery
positions from which German and Aus
trian heavy artillery were pounding
their eight and 12-lnch shells Into the
French barrier forts and Into the ranks
of the French field army, which has
replaced the crumbling fortifications of
steel and cement with ramparts of flesh
and blood.
Impressions at the end are those of
some great industrial undertaking with
powerful machinery In full operation
and endless supply trains bringing up
the raw materials for fabrication,
rather than of war as pictured.
French Hold Obstinately.
"From a point of observation on a
hillside above St Mihlel. the great
battlefield on which a German army is
endeavoring to break through the line
of barrier forts between Verdun and
Toul and the opposing French forees
could be surveyed in Its entirety. In
the foreground lay the level valley, of
the Meuse. with the towns of St. Mlhlel
and Bannoncour nestling on the green
landscape..
Beyond and behind the' valley rose a
tier 'of hills, on 'which the French at
this' writing obstinately ' hold . an In
trenched position, checking the point of
tho German wedge, while French forces
from north and south beat on the sides
of the triangle trying to force It back
across the Meuse and out from the
vitals of the French fortress line.
' Infantry Cunningly Hidden.
Bursting shells threw up their col
umns of white or black fog around the
edge of the panorama. Cloudlets of
white smoke here and there showed
where a position waa being brought
under shrapnel fire. An occasional
aeroplane could be picked out, hovering
over the lines, but the infantry and
the field battery positions could not be
discerned, even with a'high-power field
glass, so cleverly had the armies taken
cover. The uninitiated observer would
have almost believed this a deserted
landscape, rather than the scene of a
great battle, which, if successful for
the Germans, would force the main
French army to 'retreat from its en
trenched positions along" the Alsne
River. '
Fort silenced by Mortars.
About three miles away, across the
Meuse, a quadrangular mound of black,
ploughed-up earth on the hillside
marked the location of Fort les Pa
orches, which had been silenced by tho
German mortars the night before. Fort
Camp des Romanes, so named because
the Roman legions centuries ago had
selected this site for a strategic en
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INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 68.8
Gegreei; minimum temperature. OU.W ae
aroea, TODAY'S Increasing cloudiness, probably
followed by rain; southeasterly winds.
War.
Determined fish tins; In progress for posses-
slon of Verdun. Section 1. pace 1,
French must recapture St. Mlblel If possible.
Section 1. Dace 2. .
British report eavs Germans are fighting
welL Section 1. page a.
Officer of British cruiser Undaunted describes
North Sea fight. Section 1. page 3.
Half of inhabitants of Antwerp return home.
Section 1. page 2.
Germany rives formal notice she will respect
Monroe doctrine. Section 1. page 2.
FortuLi of war a grain worry, Paris. Sec
. tion J pace 1,
National.
Longest iteaslon of Congress at end. - Sec
tion i, pace a
Forecasts show Republicans will sain in
November elections. Section 1, page 1.
Xkra-estle.
Mr. Slnnott fights for fair deal for Oregon.
Section 1. pae 9.
Fate of Mrs. Carman is with Jury. Sec
tlon 1. page o.
. Sports.
Coast League results: San Francisco 8. Port
land 6; Oakland 1. Missions 2; Venice
-& Lros Angles 1-2. Section 2, page V.
Columbia, and Hill match Wednesday ex
pected to be hotly contested. Section 2,
Page a.
Training table for Aggie team Is' abolished.
Section 2, page 4,
Portland Golf Club members will labor on
course today. Section 2, page 3.
Continuance of boxing In California seems
to depend on chance people will forget
to vote on measure. Section 2, page V.
Portland victories are -won despite almost
annual wrecking of team. Section 2,
page 2.
Matty . says Stalling finds laurel wreath
hard to wear. Section 2, page .3.
Yale smothered. 13 to 7, by Washington and
Jefferson. Section 2, page 4.
Chemawa Indians fall before' onslaughts of
Multnomah eleven, 27-6. Section 2. page 4.
Oregon wins 13-to-0 victory over Idaho. Sec
. tion 2. page 1.
Pacific Northwest.
Yamhill schools report progress in every de
partment. Section 3,. page 12.
Coburg, near Eugene, pledges support to
Mr. Booth. Section 1. page 8.
Great progress reported at Baptist State
Convention at Grants Pass. Section 1.
page 9.
Senator Chamberlain addresses Cottage
Grove voters. Section 1. page 8.
Supreme Court holds Cleeton - Is County
Judge and that Holraan is Commissioner.
Section 1, page 8.
Booth and Withycomba tallc to overcrowded
operahouse at Hillsboro. Section 1. page 8.
Automobiles and Roads.
Partv returns from fiOOO-mlle automobile
tour. Section 4, page 7. .
Locomobile company opens factory branch
In Portland. Section 4. page 6.
High gear strains, says Fred W. Vogler.
Section 4. nage 6.
Truck service now is battling railway for
trade supremacy In farming districts. Sec
tion 4. oare 0.
Three scenftj links soon to tlo Oregon to
South. Section 4, page a.
- Commercial and Marine.
Wheat prices steadily advancing in North
western markets. Section 2, page 16.
Profit-taking sales affect wheat market at
Chicago, Section 2, page 13.
New York banks again report excess of cash
reserves, section 2. page 15.
Government dredge. CoL P. S. Mlchle, to
undergo test on bar and in quiet water.
Section 2. page 6. '
' .'.Portland and Vicinity.,--.
Reed College adds unique literature course
to works. Section 1. page 21.
President Wilson's touch to start Land Show
Sn Portland. SecUon 1, page 17.
Palatial National Theater will open Wednes
day as Portland's select movie home.
Section 1. page IS.
Land products Show may make record west
of Chicago by financing own operation.
Section l. page 16.
Many events of nearly completed Land
Products Show programme vary. , Sec
tion 1, page 16.
Tillman Reuter to make dry land farm ex
hibit at San Francisco fair. Section 3,
page 7. '
Girls will can fruit at Land Products Show.
Section 1. page 1C.
Republicans, defeated for nominations, urge
party loyalty. Section 1, page 20.
Thomas McCusker ridicules Chamberlain's
method and shatters his arguments. Sec.
tlon 3. naxe 12.
Wheat buying continues active and 75 pet
cent of supply thought purchased. Sec
tion 2. page 16.
Division of Flying Squadron attacks rum In
two East Side meatlngm. flection 1,
page 16.
Pastors today to urge congregations to vote
in recall election Tuesday. Section 1
pago 16.
Railway company firefighters give demon
. stration at Center-street ahops. Section
1, page 18. ,
Figures given by Lafferty shown to be
garbled. Section 1, page 14.
Jud&re McGinn oersonallv interviews tK pris
oners in City Jail. Section 1, page 12.
Who Is to pay water bills? is to come to
vote at election. Section 1, page 13.
Desirability of interstate bridge bond Issue
emphasized. Section 1. page 14.
Real sin of Mayor and Commissioners failure
to play politics, says Mr. La Roche. Sec
tion 1, page 18. . -
Women enlist In Republican cause. Sec
tion 3. nage tt. .....
Lafferty. friend of worlclngman, would be j
"social lion." Section 3, page 12.
RUSSIANS Oil
RETREATING ENEMY
Germans Retire as Far
as Skierniewice.
RETURN, HOWEVER, EXPECTED
Petrograd Says Foe's Move Is
Strategical.
WARSAW IN PREPARATION
Austro-German Army South of River
Pllltza Forced to Engage in Se
rious Battle Contest tor
Vistula Again. On.
PETROGRAD. Oct. 24. The follow
ing official communication was Issued
by the general headquarters tonight:
"Our troops beyond the Vistula are
pressing the armies of the enemy in re
treat. North of the PUltza River the
Germans are offering only feeble re
sistance. They have been driven back
as far as Skierniewice.
"South of the PUltza, on the roads
to Ranom, we have forced the Austro
German troops to engage in a serious
battle.
Forests Carried by Bayonet.
"On October 23 the fighting line ex
tended 40 versts (2 miles). At cer
tain points the engagements took on
the character of band-to-hand encoun
ters. "In the forest around Radom several
of our infantry .regiments successfully
carried out bayonet attacks. At other
points we have taken prisoners and
rapid flrers.
"Above the River Iljanka the Aus
trian troops are seeking again to estab
lish themselves on the Vistula, but our
troops have crossed the river and are
offering strong resistance.
t Austrian Prisoners Taken.
"Along the River Han and south of
Przemysl desperate engagements con
tinue, but the advantage is with our
troops, who have here made thousands
of prisoners. In taking the . heights
of Tytchentsea,:. south of Jaroslau, we
have made prisoners of five Austrian-
companies. .
"In repulsing an attack on the enemy
against our corps operating south of
Przemysl, we have captured COO pris
oners and nine rapid-f irers. The left
wing of that- corps, taking the of
fensive, made a number of prisoners
and captured a quantity of arms and
caissons. A column of the enemy which
occupied Stry has been dispersed. A
thousand prisoners were taken.
"There is nothing to report from
East Prussia."
Petrograd is aglow with official re
ports of the recent successes of the
Russian armies the repulse of the
Germans at Warsaw and in the vicin
ity of Ivangorod, fresh captures of
prisoners and the precipitate flight of
the Austrlans.
The military authorities, however, in
stead of resting in. a sense of security
i or magnifying the importance of the
German retreat are preparing now for
the anticipated attempt of the Germans
to resume the aggressive. Hence Rus
sian reinforcements and ammunition
trains are streaming steadily toward
Warsaw and Ivangorod. Without min
imizing the effect of the German fail
ure, the authorities call the recent re
pulse not so much a decisive engage
ment as a necessary German retreat to
avoid a Russian outflanking move
ment. -
Warsaw and Ivangorod are ready for
any attempt of the Germans. A return
movement is expected soon.
Dispatches from Grand Duke Nlcho-
Concluded on Face 6.)
ON SOME NEWS EVENTS
Saturday's War Moves
WITH Germany hurling fresh troops,
estimated as high as 600,000 men.
into the titanic conflict raging in
Northern France, the Paris War Office
tonight asserted all attacks from the
sea as far as the region to the south
of Arras had been repulsed. t
The fighting between Lille and Dun
kirk Is described in Berlin as the great
est battle of the campaign and on its
outcome is said to' hinge the fate of
the German Invasion of France.
Around Nleuport, where the French
English fleet aided the allies' land
forces, the battle Is said to have been
a massacre of the Germans, many
bodies at that point still being washed
on the beach by the waves.
Because of the deadly fire of the
naval guns the invaders are declared
to have left the coast clear in an effort
to work around Dlxmude toward Lille,
a Berlin report claiming success, on the
Tser Canal.
In their supreme effort to break
through the allied line the Germans are
reported to have stripped Brussels and
Antwerp of their garrisons, and even to
have drawn reinforcements from the
line before Rhelms.
Zeppelins are also declared to have
been used in bombarding the allied line
after having practiced dropping bombs
at targets from a height of 7000 to
8000 feet.
The French commander-ln-chtef is
the only one to admit reverses In the
west and he does so only in cryptic
sentences. It is difficult to judge,
therefore, how the battles in France
and Belgium are progressing, but It
seems certain that up to last night
none of the armies has succeeded in
pushing its offensive far enough to
bring appreciably nearer the end. any
of the engagements that have been
going on for so many weeks.
The Germans have taken the offensive
against both the left wing of the al
lied army, which rests on the sea, and
that portion of the French army which
Is defending the line of fortifications
between Verdun and TouL In the for
mer operations, in which every German
soldier at the command of the officers
In Belgium is taking part, the French
report admits that the Germans have
made progress at some points, but de
clares that at others the allies have
been Just as successful.
It Is evident that along the coast
the Germans have found it difficult to
advance in the face of the hard fight
ing force drawn along the Tser Canal,
aided by the British and French ships,
which are bombarding them from the
sea. It probably Is the most pictur
esque battle ever fought. On shore the
troops of five nations are fighting
the Austrlans and Germans on one side
and the French. Belgian and British
on the other. " -
The British monitors, gunboats and
destroyers and submarines are fight
ing side by side with French warships,
while at the same time they are being
subjected to attack by German sub
marines and airships.
Thus far the warships have had the
better of it, for while they are report
ed to have Inflicted terrible losses on
the Germans trying to advance along
the coast, they themselves . have suf
fered, little or no damage and .have
warded off attacks by submarines.
Round about Lille, which the Ger
mans hold, there have been unusual
fluctuations, the French gaining in one
area, and the Germans in another not
far distant. There has been so much
fighting here, as well as farther south.
In the direction of Arras and Roye, that
even the accounts of trainloads of
wounded being taken dally to the hos
pitals cannot be exaggerated.
The same can be said of the district
between the fortresses of Verdun and
Toul, where two armies have been bat
tling for many weeks, with gains and
losses amounting to virtually nothing
as far as distance is concerned.
Now both sides claim success in a
battle in which there were so many
victims that the Germans asked for a
truce to bury their dead. This plea
was refused.
Having defeated the first German
attack on Warsaw, the Russians are
rushing reinforcements to crush back
the German invasion.
Farther south the Russians have
failed to make the Austrians, who are
now commanded by German officers
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OF A BUSY WEEK.
REPUBLICANS WILL
GAIN III ELECTION
Winning Back pf 50
House Seats Expected.
OLD LEADERS WILL RETURN
Election of "Uncle Joe" Can
non Is Predicted
PROGRESSIVES IN ECLIPSE
CanTass of Cnited States Oivcs In
dication of Returns to Republi
canism, but Not EnougH
to Control House.
NEW YORK. Oct 24. The World
will print tomorrow a forecast of the
election for members of both houses of''"
Congress, to be held November 3. The
salient features of the World's figures
are:
1. The Republicans will undoubtedly
score substantial gains in the Lower
House, though the Democrats are sure
to control it by a majority in excess of
IS. and which is likely to reach 40.
2. In the Senate there will probably
be 54 or 55 Democrats and 41 or 42
Republicans, as- against 51 Democrats
and 45 Republicans at present.
3. The 64th session of the House of
Representatives will .contain at least
226 Democrats, 179 Republicans and 11
Progressives, with 19 districts doubt
ful. In the present Congress there aro
290 Democrats. 127 Republicans and 18
Progressives.
. Popular Vote Governs Senators.
Thirty-two Senators out of 96 are to
be elected by popular vote under the
new constitutional amendment on No
vember 3. One, Broussard, Democrat,
of Louisiana, was elected for the term
beginning March S, 1915, by the last
Louisiana Legislature two years ago
under the old law. ' An entire House.
435 members, is to be elected, and five
vacancies, all Democratic and caused
by resignations, are to be filled for the
short term this Winter. .-
In the contests for the 33 seats in the
Senate, existing conditions point to the
election of three and perhaps four Dem
ocrats to take the places of Republi
cans. These are Gerard in New York,
Baldwin In Connecticut and Moyle in
Utah, and probably Sullivan In . Illi
nois. Progressive nominees do not figure
in the estimates of results other than
contributing to the defeat of Republi
can candidates.
Senate Forecast Made.
The World predicts the election of
Democratic Senators from Alabama,
Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecti
cut. Florida, Georgia. Kentucky (2),
Maryland, Missouri. Nevada, North
Carolina, Oklahoma and South Caro
lina, It predicts that Republicans will be
elected in Idaho, New Hampshire, North
Dakota, South Dakota. Vermont and
Washington.
As to the Senatorial situation in oth
er states, the following is given as a
summary:
California Joseph R. Knowl.nC, Repub
lican. Mem. to stand a better chanc. for
election than James D. Phelan, Democrat,
or Francis J. Ueney, Progressive.
Illinois Lawrence T. Sherman (Incum
bent). Republican, has as his principal com.
petltor Rocer Sullivan. Democrat, and may
be defeated because, of th. candidacy of
Raymond Robins. Progressive.
Indiana Benjamin F. Shiv.ly (Incum
bent). Democrat, will have a hard, flsht to
bat Hurt T. Miller. Republican,, and A. J.
Be verld se. Progressive, but will probably
win.
Ion Maurice Connelly. Democrat. 1. rlv- .
Ing Albert B Cummlng. (Incumbent). R
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