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THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, OCTOBER 25. 19U. BATTLE OF VERDUN IS VITAL TO ARMIES GREAT BRITAIN'S FOREIGN SECRETARY IN TROOP CAMP." GERMANY RESPECTS MONROE DOCTRINE ti ll at: IV. iV. it: a:: ill WE GIVE Germans and Austrians Con tend With Big Guns for Important Positions. Ambassador Makes Formal Disclaimer of Ambitions in South America. Travel for a Dollar in Trade vs. f rJjL a Mile in i ;:: u I: si! t?i li! in ti lt: zi $:: ti'i u J!: I; !!i a:: ill !Si t:: H . t 31: si- c:; v. ; j; 5 5 1 st: 5H 5:: SI; " it: I:; :: Hi ill 55: 25: s:: si: a i . ii: v.. : ;: 55; I:' i: a : COUNTRY SEEMS AT PEACE "War Machines. Pounding Shells Into Bank of Foe Seem Like Great Industrial Operations Aus trian Guns Employed. (Continued From Flrat Page.) campment, had been tormed by JBa- varian infantry two days earlier, after its heavy guns had been put out of ac tion and artillery officers said that Fort Lyonville. 15 miles to the south and' out of range of vision, was then practically silenced, only one of its armored turrets continuing to answer the bombardment. The correspondent had spent the previous night at the fortress town of Metz, staying: under the same roof with Prince Oscar of "Prussia, invalided in from the field in a state of physical breakdown; Prince William of Hohen zollern, father-in-law of ex-King Man uel, and other officers either watching or engaged in the operations in the field, and traveled by automobile to the battlefront, 35 miles to the west. Fortifications Well Masked. For the first part of the distance the road led through the hills on which are the chain of forts comprising the fort ress of Metz, but, although the general staff officer in the car pointed now . and then to a hill aa the site of this or that fort, traces of the fortifications could only occasionally be made out. Usually they were so skillfully masked and concealed "by woods ' or blended with the hillsides that nothing out of the ordinary was apparent, in striking contrast to the exposed position of the forts at the recently visited fortress of Liege, which advertisedtheir pres ence from the skyline of the compass ing hills and fairly Invited bombard ment The country as far as the frontier town of Gorze seemed bathed in abso lute peace. No troops were seen, rarely were automobiles of the general staff encountered and men and women were working in the fields and vineyards as if the war were a million miles away instead of only next door. Supply Trains Crowd Roads. Beyond Gorze, however, leading outhwest through Chambley, St. Ben oit Vigneuilles to St. Mihlel was crowd ed with long columns of wagons and automobile trucks bearing reserve am munition, provisions and supplies to the front or returning empty for new loads to the unnamed railroad base in K -C : J t f X ft i J A" 4 't ' 1. ' - jr r ' - t " t I - r J A - - )'i',s-j. ? - "! .' 1 $ - fv-- - --i:Jf- f 4 sow s s As vv Vi- - Photo Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. SIR EDWARD GREY, WEARING DERBY, TALKING TO HIS COl'SIN. TROOPER MONK MASON, WHO FACES HIM IN CAMP OF KING EDWARD'S HORSE, liA.tGLEI PARK . , presenting arms before them In recog nition of their gallant sU.nd. Honorable Terms Granted. The most honorable terms of surren der weie granted them, their officers were allowed to retain their swords, and on their march toward captivity they were everywhere greeted with ex pressions of respect and admiration. Headquarters guard here was com posed of a company of infantry.. The the rear. Strikingly good march disci- company's field kitchen, the soup boiler pline waa observed, part of the road be- and oven on wheels which the German army copied . irom -tne Mussians ana which the soldiers facetiously and ai fectionately called thetr "goulash can non," had that day, the Captain said, fed 970 men, soldiers of his own and passing; companies, headquarters at taches, wounded and the detachment of French prisoners. Experienced officers still rank the field kitchen with the sturdy legs of the Infantry, the German heavy artil lery and the aviation corps, as four of the most Important factors in the showing made by the German armies. FIGHTING IS CLOSE French Forts Powerless With German Siege Guns in Play. ing left free for the passage of staff automobiles or marching troops. Life seemed most comfortable for the driv ers and escorts, as the enemy in ad vance had been long enough in position and its railroad base was so near that supplying it involved none of the sleepless nights and days and almost superhuman exertions falling to the lot of the train in the flying march of the German armies toward Paris. A few miles beyond Gorze the French frontier was passed and from this point on the countryside with its deserted farms, rotting shocks of wheat and uncut fields of grain, trampled down by infantry and scarred with trenches. excavations ror Dattenes and pits caused by exploding shells, showed war a devastating heel prints. Commanding General Comfortable. Main army headquarters, the resl dence and working quarters of a com manaing General, whose name may not ne mentioned, were in Chateau Chamb ley. a fine French country house. In the chateau the commanding General made war as comfortable as in his own nume. leiegrapn wires led to it from various directions, a small headauar ters guard lounged on the grass under tne trees, a dozen automobiles and motorcycles were at hand and grooms were leading about the chargers of tue General and hin Ktaff At St n.nnit five miles farther r.n n. .iiiin.iiii.il, I censors' decision. Judge Stevenson de headauartor wa nrnimi.r.d in cided that it was hardly fair to appeal a chateau belonging to 1 rich resident, a decision of five to one person and as Th nni!n,m.i ..mi,, i...... la result he has appointed vena winner, to the American Army, and quarters John W. Kelly M. a. vm trazer, u . himself whenever possible comfortably Lovings ana Alary Anne umiin xo as- n trans- I B1Bt ann uuvwc " ST. MIHIEL IS IMPORTANT Only Severest Fighting Can Recap ture Essential Position Fate of Verdun Depends on Suc cess of Field Array. APPEAL BOARD IS NAMED Judge Stevenson Appoints Assistants ' to Pass on Films. A motion picture board of appeals has been appointed by Municipal Judge Stevenson to assist him in the review ing of Sims which have been condemned by the board of censors, on the appeal from the exhibitor. According to the city ordinance, the Municipal Judge alone is responsible for the films after they have been passed by the board of censors. He may either condemn or pasa tne pic ture on the exhibitor's appeal from the in houses, wasting no energy 1 porting and setting up tented cities for officers and soldiers. No matter how fast or how far" a German army moves, a completely equipped tele grapn oirice is ready for the army commander five minutes after head- uuarters have been established. PrlMMrra Treated Deferentially, At St. Benoit a party of some 800 French prisoners war: ,ncnnntpr,H waiting outside headquarters. They SATURDAY'S " " 1 1 (wi una jvuiis irnu. 111 Ml 1 rv - lng contrast to the elderly reservist type which predominates in the Ger man prison camps. They were evident ly elite troops of the line and were be ing treated almost with deference by their guards, a detachment of bearded landwehr men from South Germany. They were the survivors of the garri son of the Roman camp fort who had put up such a desperate and spirited defense as to win the whole-hearted admiration and respect of the German officers and men Their armored turrets and cemented bastions, although constructed after the best rules of fortification of a few years ago. had been battered about their ears in an unexpectedly short time by German and Austrian siege artillery. Their guns had been silenced and trenches -were pushed up by an overwhelming force of pioneers and infantry to within five yards of their works before they retreated from the advanced entrenchments to the caBe ments of the fort. Stinkpots Smoke Out Germans. Here tney maintained a stoat re sistance and refused every summons to surrender. Hand grenades were brought up. bound to a backing of boards, and exploded against the open ings into the casemates, filling these with showers of steel splinters. Pio neers, creeping up to the dead angle of . the casemates where the fire of the defenders could not reach them, di rected smoke tubes and stinkpots against apertures In the citadel, fill ing the rooms with suffocating smoke and gases. "Have you had enough?" they were asked after the first smoke treatment. "So, was the defiant answer. The treatment was repeated a second and a third time the response to the demand for surrender each time grow Ing weaker until finally the defenders were no-longer able to raise their rifles and the fort was taken. When the survivors of the plucky garrison were able to march out, revived by the fresh air, they found their late opponents the films. The city ordinance provides that films shall be condemned when the censors decide that they are "obscene, Indecent or immoral." There are films which are none of these things which, never theless, may be objectionable, and these are chiefly the ones which will come to the board of appeals lor decision. LONDON, Oct. 2. The Times to day prints a dispatch, in which its correspondent at Nancy, France, un der date of October 15, gives a vivid picture of the fighting on the right wing of the French army. Though the French official commu nications continually say that the sit uation on the right wing is un changed," he says, "they do not mean that the opposing armies are marking time. The Germans have made fierce efforts to get Verdun. These efforts were also fiercely repelled and th French field army still stands between the army of Metz and the coveted fort resses of Toul and Verdun. Junction la Prevented, In the attempt on Saint Mihlel the Germans were more successful. flshting will be necessary to eject them, but the German oDjecuve me junction of the army of Metz with the right wing of the Crown princes army of Argonne has been prevented. The French are praying lor a heavy fall of snow which would seriously hamper the enemy's movements of supplies and might even drive them Into the open like wolves. 'The guns of Verdun have never yet WAR MOVES (Continued From First Page.) and stiffened with German troops, give ud their attempt to cross the San River. In the great eight-day conflict be tween Sambor and Przemysl the can nonading has been continuous. Here the Austrians began the attack and. after being hurled back, concentrated in an advance against Lemberg in an effort to cut the Russian line. It is declared they were defeated with loss of 5000 prisoners. The German-Austrian forces also are said to have taken Jaroslau, but to have been ousted later. The official report from Vienna says the Russians, after being allowed to cross the River San, were pressed back, and that the Austrians defeated two Russian divl slons at Ivangorod. The Russians apparently are engaged in the offensive operations on the East Prussian frontier, as the German official report refers to a Russian at tack at Augustowo, which it says waa repulsed. Of the fighting in Bosnia the ac counts are so contradictory that no judgment can be formed. The Austri ans say they have defeated the Servi ans and Montenegrins, while both those powers say the Austrian attacks along the. Bosnian frontier have been repelled. J "Willamette Seconds Lose at Dallas. PALLAS. Or., Oct. 24. (Special.) The Dallas High School football team. coached by Carl Fenton, former Unl versity of Oregon star, today defeated the second team of the Willamette University here, 15 to S. The game was one of the baat ever witnessed here. - Willamette scored on a fumble by Cutler, but waa unable to kick goal. been in action, and there Is no prospect of the fall of Verdun unless the French field army allows the Germans to get their big guns within range. Forta ITtterly Useless. "The whole history ot this war, how ever, goes to prove the utter useless- ness of forts under present conditions. The best type of fortifications seems to consist of batteries from which the guns can be easily moved to a new point as soon as they are located by the enemy. The day of the fixed fort is gone. After the Germans had en trenched themselves at St. Mihlel, their big guns made short work of the French forts at Troyon and Camp-des Romains. The guns of the forta had a range of only five miles against the German siegers' range of seven miles. "The Germans have placed a battery of Austrian 42-centimeter guns on the site ot Camp-des-Romains. which com mands St. Mlhiel and a large part of the Woevre. It is most important that the French recapture this position, but it will take the most severe kind ot fighting to do so." APPREHENSION IS ALLAYED JAPANESE TAKE PRIZE GERMAN STEAM SCHOONER TXTRED OFF HOBJOLXTLV. CAP- Captain Makes Sarins; Attempt to Es cape by Jumping; lata Shaxsx Infeated Waters. WAR IS 50,000,000 COSTING DAILY. On the basis of the French and English official data regarding the daily average costs of the war to those governments to date, the London Economist reck ons the daily outlay at 150,000, 000. It thus arrives at it: "According to a Swiss compu tation, there were in Europe at the end of August about 20,400, 000 men actually under arms. At the beginning of October Ger many (on the same authority) had under arms 27 army cqrps of her regular troops, and an equal number of reserves,' making a total of 54 army corps, say, 2, 160,000 men. Of these. 24 army corps were in France, six In Bel glum and Alsace, 13 in East Prussia, and 11 between Thorn and Cracow. There are, in addi tion, assumed to ba 1,500,000 landsturm and volunteers serving in the interior, while 600,000 fresh recruits are reported to be in training sufficiently advanced for them to be ready for service in November. "Even the neutral states, it was estimated, had mobilized more than 2,000.000 soldiers on a war footing. For each soldier, including initial and consequent expenses. 10 shillings per day is usually counted in an estimate. This gives a total daily war ex pense in Europe of over 10,000, 000 sterling. Of this Germany would provide for some 2,200, 000 per day, Austria, for 1.600, 000; Russia, for 2,100.000, and France for 1,600,000. Even Switzerland was then spending some 60,000, and Holland prob ably 100.000." The Economist's estimate brings the assumed daily aver age close to the highest Euro pean estimate published before the war, which was $54,000,000, but with Italy also assumed to' be at war. , . y tn HONOLULU, T. H.. Oct. 24. The first German prize to be taken in sight of American shores washed by the Pacific fell to the Japanese today. She is the little steam tradinar schooner Eeolus. Hard . with no cargo and a small crew, which calls annually at nan francisco io re plenish her stock. The battleship Hizen captured her early today within sight of the headlands flanking Honolulu har bor. The American revenue cutter Thetis, which put off to the scene of the cap ture, brought back word that the Hizen probably would send her prisoners ashore tomorrow. Two other warships, one three and one four-stacked, were sighted 20 miles off port. Japan is known to have five warships in American waters, the cruisers Kongo and As a ma, which convoyed the liner Shinyo Maru to San Francisco and were reported off shore there today, and the three vessels sighted here today. British and Japanese merchantmen crossing the Pacific keep in constant touch by wireless with warships, which direct their movements, and it is under stood on reliable authority that Japan alone has in all eight vessels patroling the lanes of travel. Von Bernstorff's Xote Xot Made Pub lic, bnt Acting Secretary Lan sing Admits Statement Is on Record. WASHINGTON. Oct. 14. Count Bernsdorff. the German Ambassador to the United States, announced today that he had formally communicated to the Washington Government the determi nation of Germany to respect the Mon roe Doctrine, whatever the outcome of the European war. After considerable search his note to the State Department was discovered, but its text was not made public, prob ably because the communication had figured in exchanges of cipher mes sages with Berlin. . South American Alms Disclaimed. Its substance was communicated to the press, however, by Acting Secretary Lansing, who Slid: The German Ambassador on Sep tember 3 last. In a note to the Depart ment of 8tate. said that he was In structed by his government to deny most emphatically the rumors to the effect that Germany intends, in case she comes out victoriously in the pres ent war, to seek expansion In South America." Discussion of the Ambassador's note was aroused by a published statement of Dr. Dernburg, former Colonial Sec retary of Germany, which called at tention to the fact that his government had taken occasion to notify the United States formally of the untruth or reports as to its intentions in South America. Germany's Enemies Blamed. Dr. Dernburg and German officials here attributed these rumors to Ger many's enemies In the present war. be lieving they were designed tn influence public opinion in the United States against Germany. At the German embassy surprise was expressed that Dr. Dern burg's remarks had aroused particular interest. It was asserted that the disclosed no altera tion of policy by Germany, and atten tion was drawn to public utterances of Count Bernstorff, dating as far back as 1909, to the same effect. Speaking before the Academy of Political and So cial Sciences in Philadelphia in that year, the Ambassador quoted "Cool idge's "The United States as a World Power. Previous Vtterance Quoted. "Mr. Coolldge thinks,- the Ambassa dor said, "the chief source of difficulty between Germany and the United States may be found in the Monroe Doctrine, in regard to which the American people will hear no argument or compromise and are prepared to maintain their po sition at any cost. "We. in .Germany are well aware of these facts, but there is not the slight est indention on our part to get a ter ritorial foothold in the Western Hem isphere.' The fact that neither In his verbal communication to Mr. Lansing in the note to which his statement was re duced, nor in his many speeches on the subject had Count Bernstorff ex pressed the specific acceptance of his government of the Monroe Doctrine waa noted here. Monroe Doctrine Interpreted. One reason given for this was that tho famous doctrine waa too vague and nebulous In statement to be made the basis for formal agreement with Euro pean powers. As the essence of the doctrine is generally understood to be unqualified opposition to the acquisition only in the Western Hemisphere by any Euro pean power, however, the Ambassador felt that a declaration on that point should be sufficient to allay apprehen sion in this country which might have been aroused bjtumors that Germany planned a colonization policy in South America if victorious against the allies. Callfornlans to Meet Tuesday. The California Society will hold Its monthly meeting In room A. Public LI brary, Tuesday night. October 27. at o'clock. A special programme is being arranged and David M. Roth will speak on "Memory" and will give practical demonstrations. Rationalists to Hear Lecture. Caroline Nelson, of San Francisco, will deliver a lecture on "The Enslave ment of Woman," before the Portland Rationalist Society tonight at 8 o'clock. in room A. central liDrary. 3 PICKED AS CRACKSMEN Warrants Allege Portland. Suspects Robbed Gardiner Mill. ROSEBURG, Or., Oct. 24. (Special.) Warrants of arrest were issued In the Justice Court here late today, ac cusing John Adams, Walter Brennan and John O'Neal, now in Jail at Port land, of burglary in connection with the robbery of the offices of the Gar diner Mill Company at Gardiner, six weeks ago. Sheriff Qulne. of Roseburg, who has been working on the case for several days, said tonight that several Gar diner residents had recognized the photographs of the three men in jail at Portland as the persons who were camped a short distance from Gardiner several days before the robbery. On the day following the. burglary they were missing. The Sheriff also said the men, when arrested, had consid erable money, some of which showed evidence of having been blackened from an explosion. The robbers twice dynamited the safe, from which they took about $2000. Sheriff Qulne expects to go to Portland Monday, and it is probable that the suspects will be returned here for trial. Cotton Brokers Owe $9,888,361. NEW YORK. 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