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76 Pages Section One Pages 1 to 18 mm Six Sections VOL. XXXIII NO. 45. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 8, 1914. PRICE FIVE CENTS. GERMANS SHOW RENEWED VIGOR Mighty Effort Made to Win Way to Boulogne. FURIOUS BATTLES RAGING Allies Are Taking Initiative and Hold Advantage i Around Ypres. SHELLS RAIN ON ARRAS Wear Roulers and Lys and in Valley of Scarpe Strug gle Is Intense. ' PARIS. Nov. 8. The Germans are showing renewed activity from the 'Yser to the Moselle, indicating, it is believed here, either their intention to begin another greaf effort for vic tory or to conceal the withdrawal of troops to be sent to the eastern the ater of war, or perhaps both. The battle around Ypres continues vilh undiminished fury- but as the al lies continue to take the initiative, the advantage rests with them. . Battle Takes New Turn. North of Ypres, that is between it and Dixmude, neither side appears to be making any great effort and no decisive result has been achieved. It is in the direction of Roulers-and the Lys that the enemy is now operating with all the forces at his disposal with the object of driving the allies back on Boulogne. The allies now hold the advantage en their center and right wing. In this direction the enemy's extreme positions are at . "Wytschaete and Messines, facing west. , HillB Held by Allies. ' Running from Kemmel toward Lys, the hills rise to a height of 400 feet above sea level jand dominating po sitions near Kemmel are in the hands of the allies. The valley pf the Lys, through which the Germans are al vancing, is only 50 feet above sea level so that the allies have the bene fit of stronger ground. The struggle in the valley of the Scarpe continues with unabated in tensity. The Germans still are mak ing desperate efforts against Arras snd at times shells have fallen into the city at the rate of 82 a minute. French. Skillfully Disposed. v' The French lines are established killfully, making every possible use of the hills on the west and the small rivers Crinchon and Scarpe which flow nearby, and the Germans, despite repeated attacks, have failed to make (Concluded on Page 4.) I T"" 1t 1 1 ' vvHfRE oh If" " 1 I SAY, I'M THE 1 1 fa I VIS0.S Wfef ' yos r - J I I t I ,r . , "7 ,,.,, i,x.u.JJJ..,, t - 105 5v ' , . ' BULLETINS L(DOX, Not. T-Eaclnccn from the Krnpp gnn work are mounting; heavy run at the Belgian aeaport of Oatend and facing them seawards, ac cording to a dispatch from Rotterdam to the ISxchangre Telegraph Company. ROME, Not. 7. According to a tele gram from Odeaaa the Ruaalans consid er themselves absolute masters of the Black Sea. ; The Turkish fleet. It Is declared, haa retired behind the Boo phorua and doea not seem disposed to come out. LONDON, Nov. T. The Dally Mall's Belgian correspondent asserts that aft er the defeat of the Germans la the region of Dlxmude the Belglana had to send out four burying parties, number ing altogether 4000 men, to bury the German dead, which they estimated at 37,000. . VALPARAISO, Nov. TV Tke Chilean steamers Valdlvle and Chlloe. flying Red Cross flags, have Bailed with sealed ordera from the government. The transport Malpo was dispatched earlier. It la assumed that the mission of the vessels has to do with the report that the British cruiser Monmouth was driven ashore on the Chilean coast. LONDON, Nov. 7. Turkish army headquarters In Constantinople reports that on the eastern frostier Turkish troops are in touch with the enemy along the entire front and that In the roads of Smyrna three large English ships and aevcral English and French steamers have been seised. LONDON, Nov. 7 Residents of Berno Bay, a seaside resort on the east coast of England, were awakened between midnight and X o'clock this morning by the sounds of heavy firing in the North Sea. . - LONDON, Nov.. 7 A dispatch re ceived by the Marconi Wireless Tele graph. Company from Berlin says the Reichstag will assemble December 2. A preliminary conference of members of all the political parties will be held the day before the opening of the session to consider the business to be put be fore the body. LONDON, Nov. 7. It Is reported from Berlin that the revolution kindled by German emissaries In the Portuguese colony of Angola, Wert Africa, Is spreading. The colony's troops are In sufficient to defend the southern fron tier against German attacks and n bri gade of troops Is being sent from Por tugal. LONDON, Nov. . A report from Con stantinople, by way of Berlin and Am sterdam, says the Russlan fleet today bombarded the Black Sea ports of Zun- guldlak and . Kuila for two, hours. At Knilu the Greek steamship Nlkoa was sunk. At Zunguldiak the French church and the French consulate were d strayed. ' CITY IN LONDON-LIKE FOG Haze Descending; at 9 o'clock Feels Wintry and Furs Appear. A . London . holiday season fog; de scended on Portland last night shortly after 9 o'clock, and, with the mercury dropping: steadily gave a Winterish touch to the atmosphere that is seldom experienced in Portland. The fog made downtown street traf fic cautious, but brought out the new Winter furs and the.. Saturday night wayfaring crowd was one of seasonal mode. Women's Winter hats came out, and heavy furs for the first time were in vogue this year. - The air was brisk and the street lights twinkled through the haze. CENSORS CORRECT STYLE Professors Recruited for Service In sist on Literary Quality. .' PARIS, Oct. 30. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) Censors at the War Office are being recruited from professors of language at French uni versities. Force of habit is so strong with these improvised officials that It Is sometimes hard for them to realize they are on sterner duty than correct ing recitation papers. All Bordeaux was amused when It was reported that a telegram trans mitting a news dispatch from the bat tlefront was stopped on the sole ground that it contained defects of style. DEVELOPMENTS OF THE ELECTIONS AND THE AU5TRIAHS.CUT.QFF FROM THEIR ALLIES Army Pressed Against Carpathian Mountains. SNOWFALL BLOCKS RETREAT 'etrograd Rejoices Over De cisive, Surpassing Victory. CAVALRY FORCE SMASHED Austro-German Troopers Said to Have Been Massacred by Cossacks and Czar's Men Are Near Border of - East Prussia. . ROME. Nov. 7. A" special dispatch to the Trlbuna from Petrograd says: 'The Russians have cut off the Aus trian army from -the Germans. The Austrians were encircled on their left flank . and compelled to retreat pre cipitately, but Thursday the Russians. with a swift movement, ' occupied all the ways of retreat toward Cracow and mus-tne entire Austrian- army was pushed toward the Carpathian Moun tains, against which they are. closely pressed. Mountains Almost Impassable. "Their condition here is. desperate, as their only line of retreat lies across the Carpathians into Hungary. The Carpathians at this time of the year and with the recent snowfalls are al most impassable to a million and a half of men with provisions and munition trains and artillery. , "Petrograd is rejoicing over the present victory, which " surpasses all former ones because . of its decisive character. Great demonstrations have been held at which the army. Grand Duke Nicholas, the commander-in-chief. and Emperor Nicholas .were cheered. '.'Emperor Nicholas remains at the fronts ' ..:. Reverses Augmented Dally. . Official communications received in Rome from the Russian army head quarters say that the - Austro-German reverses in Gallcia and Russian Poland are being augmented daily by the fu gitlve troops communicating panic to their reverses. The Austro-Hungarian cavalry forces are depicted as being in an especially pitiful condition. A part of this force. it was said, was massacred by the outnumbering Cossacks, the remainder being routed and pursued In utmost confusion. .' Dual Cavalry Smashed. Austria and Germany had centered about 20,000 of their best cavalry, half of which force, the Russians maintain. is now lost. t Once the Austrian and German cav airy was disposed of, the Russians di rected their efforts to the cutting of the five armies, Into which the Austro- German forces were divided, from their western base of operations. The Rus sians forced them to the' southward at the same time, Inflicting heavy losses. Casualties Are Heavy. .. The Austro-German casualties are said to aggregate more than 30,000 men in dead and prisoners. The Rus sians also say they have captured 200 cannon. PETROGRAD. Nov. 7. The left wing of the Russian army, In engagements taking place between October 23 and November 4 on the front in the vicin ity of Cracow, took prisoners 274 of ficers and 18.500 men of the enemy, ac cording to information given out today. In addition to these prisoners, the Russian forces captured three how itzers, 40 pieces of artillery, 38 rapid- (Concluded on Pass 2.1 INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS .The .Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 05 uegrees; minimum, o degrees. TODAY'S Unsettled, probably, rain: wind mostly southerly. War. Austrians cut off from Germans and driven dock against Carpathians, which are al most Impassable. Section -1. put 1. Germans lightning advance on Warsaw, speedy recovery of Russians and masterly retreat of Germans features of campaign. 8ectlon 1. page 2. Heavy foundations of, London printing plant suspected or being- planned by Germans for siege guns. Section 1. page 1. British In training camps lack proper food ana nonstng. section 1, page 2. Russians arrest Austrian and Turkish agents in aonz. rersia. section 1. page 7. Turkey without commissariat and ammuni tion is scarce. Section 1. page 6. Arnb Dosch describes bombardment of Bel gian coast. Section 1. page 1. Germans making- renewed efforts to reach .Boulogne, section 1, page 1. Two German cruisers reported captured off t-eru. bection 1. page 1. . British officials release " American copper vessel alter cargo la unloaded. Section 1, page ...... Mexico. Carranza garrison at Tohuacan beaten la battle with ex-federals. Section 1, page 4. Domestic Quarantine of Chicagb stockyards may be cut short. Section 1. page 6. National. "Uncle Joe" Cannon not to resume leader- shin in House. Section 1. page 6. Many changes In Democratlo : leadership coming -In . new Congress. Section 1. page 6. Pacific Northwest. Washington . voter crushes great triple alli ance. Section 1. page 8. Wesley L. Jones dean of Washington dele gation at capital, section 1, page a. Lucud of Pacific Northwest Municipalities convenes at Seattle this week. Section 1 Page 9. O. A. C. extension work reaches thousand nnually. Section 1, page 8. Oregon- hope-rowers form Important state organization...' Section 1. puge 5. Sports. Washington State College wallops Idaho three points only. Section it, page 1. Harvard shuts out Princeton, 20 to 0. Sec tion 3, page 1. O. A. C. team wins cross-country run at Corvalns. Section 2, psge 2. Boxing game In California shuts up shop December 1, 1814. Section z, page 4. Rodgers leads second basemen In fielding. Section 2. page 4. Soccer ' league is proposed. Section 2, page 2. - . .. Varsity team's losses vital as Washington game date approaches. Section 2, page z. Aggies sure ' new taotlcs make them In vincible. Section 2. . page X. Tie In lnterscholastlo football leagus race Is predicted. Section 2, page 2. Christy . Mathewson tells why golf grips Its devotees. Section 2, page b. California, antl-tlght law may force Gru- man to Eastern field. Section 2, page 1. Federals to raid minora, says Fielder Jones, unless baseball war ends. Section -. page 4. , . . Automobiles and Roads. Forty racers to thrill San Francisco Expo- ' sitlon crowds. Section 4. page 0. Streamline body design of new White cars is distinctive. Section 4. page a. ' "Real Estate ana Building. Many prominent' realty .men ' see Increased business, under prohibition. Section 4, ' page 8. , i --. - October building permits . aggregate about Sa4,765. Section 4. page 8. Gas plant being erected. Section 4, page t. Week's sales In lots, large and small, show Investment period ripe, section 4, page 8, , Commercial and Marine. Larra business done on local Merchants Ex change during past week. . Section 2. page 15. Half of Northwestern apple crop moved. Section 2, page 15. Russia ' and Austria buying supplies In - United States. Section 2, page ft. Expected decrease in receipts lifts wheat prices -at cnicago. section u, page 10. Canal shown to have Increased Portland shipping. Section 2, page a. , Portland and Vicinity. City tax levy likely to be 7.S mills.'- Section 1. page 10. Evan Williams, celebrated tenor, talks of war and his ups and downs In life. Sec tion 1. page 15. Muts to open headquarters In Plttock block for distribution of food and clothing to needy. Section 1 page 13. Commissioner Daly drafts new measure to. control operation and rates or taxless. Section 1. nan 12.' Republican County Committee attains great success in campaign. Section 1, page 11. Business outlook is hopeful, says Merchants National Bank letter. Section 1, page 13. Exhibitors give away many articles of value at Land Show. Section 1. page 10. Judge McGinn deaf to pleas of women to otien court to them in girl's case. Sec tion 1. page 9. Portland School Board sets terms under which It will 'admit county students to hijea schools. Section 1. page 14. Vote count -complete, except two counties, gives 25 majority In favor of abolishing X capital punishment. Section 1, page 17. Jim WonK. wealthv . Chinese. Is stabbed in back by tongman as be dines. Seotlon 1, Pan 16. Legislative members promise laws for strict enforcement of prohibition. Section 1, - case 10. Aaron Poptck brings Allah-given milk of Russia to Portland. Section 1, page 14. Weather report, data and forecast. Section 2. page 6. ' . . - WAR GIVE INSPIRATION TO THE PEN OF CARTOONIST REYNOLDS. ARNQ OOSCH SEES COAST BOMBARDED British Captive Balloon , Helps Fine! Range. ERMAN GUNS OUT OF SIGHT Cruisers, Sailing in Circle, Keep Up Incessant Fire, ONE BATTERY DEMOLISHED In Far-Off Belgium, American Re porter Finds Acquaintance With Sporting Writer Open Sesame to Sailor's Favor. BT ARNO BOSCH. r!rt-j-r4f inn hv the Press Publishing Company, the New York World. Published by arrangement with tne worm.. FLEUROT, Flanders, Nov. 7. (Spe cial.) Because I work for the same paper as Robert Edgren, sporting? edi tor of the Evening- World. I had an unusual point ' of vantage for seeing the English navy bombard the German trenches, in sand dunes, between Nieu- port and Westende. There was a captive balloon operatjd by the flying corps of the English navy on the highest sand dune. I wanted to get up there, so I could see better, and also 1 wanted to watch the men In the balloon . semaphore, the ships telling them where to shoot, but the young English sailor, who was a member of the flying corps, stopped me until I happened to mention that I worked for the Evening World. - v Acquaintance Better Than. Pass. "Do you know Bob Edgren?". he sur prised me by asking. It was hardly a question you would expect to be asked on the Belgian sand -dunes In the midst of one of the most remarkable battles In the world's history. ' I claimed .Edgren's acquaintance and that was better than a military pass. We climbed the. sand dune together, he telling me how much he admired Edgren as a sporting editor. It seems he had been to Newport -News once. He thought Edgren was fair In his judgment of English pugilists. . Bo we stood on the sand dune, he discoursing on the Evening World's sporting ed itor while I watched the men in the balloon signal to someone In a wireless station nearer shore, who, it was ex plained to me, was letting the gunners at sea know the range. . German Guna Invisible. All you could see. even from the top of the highest sand dune, were rolling sand dunes to the east and an occa sional belch of smoke where a German gun was hidden. The moment the smoke began to dissipate you could no longer make out behind which one of the sand dunes that gun was placed. Up in the balloon they knew, however, and the English cruisers were tearing Into the sand dunes In a way that made me think they were getting results. The Germans fire did not seem to di minish, though I learned later the cruisers had demolished one battery of three big guns. The cruisers. Balling In a circle, kept steaming by at half speed, firing stead ily, guns flashing flaming tongues three seconds before we got the re ports. The Germans were compelled to shoot in the air, hoping to drop enormous shells on the decks of the cruisers. . Shells Fall to Hit Cruisers. If one had ever struck I believe It would have wrecked whatever it hit, but the shells fell all around the cruis ers and . never touched them. Inland there was no making out any thing -except the' ctTurse of the Yser (Concluded on page 2.) Saturday's War Moves WITH the exception of Tsing-Tau. the most significant report from any of the battlefronts yesterday and the most welcome from the allies point of view. Is that the Russian armies, be sides driving- Austria back in Gallcia, have reached the Warthe River, in Rus sian Poland, and established themselves on the East Prussian frontier. In fact, a Berlin official report says some Russian cavalry crossed the Warthe. but were driven back. To this the Russian report adds that the town of Warta, on the Warthe- River, in Poland, has been occupied. The Russians, too, are responsible for the report that they have defeated the Germans near Mlawa. In Poland, just across the East Prussian boundary, and at L,ycK, in juast trussis- Mllltary observers say the Russians have followed the retiring; Germans at & much faster pace than was expected and that If they are In force they may be able to prevent the Germans from taking- their -new positions on the Warthe and compel them to fall back to the Silesian border. In the West 'the same ding - dong fighting which has been going on for months continues. The Belgians, who hold the lines along the coast, are be ing given a comparative rest after their three ' months of ' almost continuous fighting. The Germans still are con centrating around Ypres, where they are trying to hack their way thorugh th Anglo-French troops which bar their way to, the coast. Both sides claim to have made prog ress here, the Anglo-French forces to the southeast of the town and the Ger mans to the southwest. Correspondents in the rear of the armies say that the fighting, which has exceeded In fury any that preceded it. has not appre ciably lessened, and that both sides are using a tremendous weight of artil lery in an endeavor to clear the ground for an advance of their Infantry. Both armies are being reinforced. It seems to be realized that the Germans cannot proceed farther west because of the co-operation of the warships with the land forces and that a route either here or farther south must be found if the Germans are to attain their ambition of reaching the French coast. Elsewhere along the line the usual attack and counte'r attacks have been delivered with success first to one and then to the other side, but - without making any material change in the situation. . Things are moving slowly in the Near East, so far as is known. The only news from - there concerns the bombardment of the ports of Zungul diak and Kusuiu, on the Asia Minor coast of Turkey, by a Russian fleet and, the sinking, of several . Turkish trans ports. It is also said that the Russians have occupied the entire region to the northeast Of Krzerum. in Asia' Minor. Russia is said to be finding useful allies in the Armenians, who at last see a hope of being rid of Turkish rule. There is no change in the political situation in the Balkans, none of the at present neutral states having- made any move. It is said, however, that agita- Ltlon has been renewed In Roumania for the participation of that country In the war on the side of the allies. The - fall of Tsing-Tau naturally caused rejoicing in London. It is be lieved that with the surrender of the German frontier the Anglo-Japanese fleet which took part In the siege will be detailed to hunt down the German cruisers still at large in the Pacific No announcement has been made con cerning the amount of booty the allies obtained through the surrender of Tsing-Tau. but it is believed the Ger mans destroyed everything possible be fore capitulating. When the siege be gan in the port were one German cruiser, four gunboats and three de stroyers, the Austrian cruiser Kaiserin Elizabeth, five German merchantmen and several prizes the Germans have taken.' Of these vessels one destroyer ran ashore and was captured and it is believed the Austrian cruiser was blown up. It is possible that the Ger man ships met a similar fate. Great Britain is not yet satisfied that all has been told of the Pacific naval battle and continues to hope that the German cruisers Lelpsig and Dresden, which engaged the Glasgow and which have not been reported since the battle, have at least been damaged. GERMANS REPORTED CAPTURED OFF PERU 2 Cruisers Said to Be in Japanese Hands. RUMOR IS CREDITED IN LIMA Nine Men-of-War Included in Spoils of Tsing-Tau. PRIZES ARE RECOVERED Xokio Announces Intention of Hold ing Territory Until Close of War, and Then Opening Ne gotiations With Chipa. LIMA. Peru, Nov. 7. It is reported here on seemingly credible authority that a Japanese squadron. cruising along the coast of Peru has captured the German cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. ' TOKIO, Nov. 8. A well authenticated report Is in circulation here to the ef fect that the Japanese Admiralty has received information that a battle In the Pacific between the Japanese and German fleets Is Impending. Whereabouts Still Unknown. No indication has been given as to the present whereabouts of either the Japanese or the German men-of-war. CALLAO, Peru, Nov. 7. Nothing is known here concerning a naval battle off the coast of Peru. Inquiry made at coast towns brought replies that no re port of an engagement had 'reached them. Vague rumors of the- capture of the cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau have .been persistent since October 31, when a dispatch to London from Syd ney, N. S. W.,' said they had been taken as a result of the failure of their coal supply. . Early Rumor Preyed Wrong;. A Tokio rumor, coming by way of London, fixed the time of the alleged capture as Saturday, October 31. but failed to designate the place, saying merely that the cruisers were coaling when surprised. This obviously was wrong, as the en gagement in- which the British squad ron was defeated and In which the Gneisenau and Scharnhorst took part was fought the following day. The last tidings of the cruisers was that after coaling at Valparaiso they put to sea last Wednesday. Inquiries May Start Soon. The present report In circulation in Lima may be a result of numerous in quiries sent to South Pacific ports ask ing information as to the reported cap ture of the vessels. Callao is the principal seaport of Peru and probably . would be better informed as to the movements off the coast than Lima, which is Inland. Felicitations exchanged by the Brit ish and Japanese Admiralties over the fall of Tsing-Tau made no mention of the capture of the Gneisenau and Scharnhorst. XIXK JIEX.OF.WAK TAKES Capture of Tslng-Taa Includes Ger- ' man and Austrian Vessels. LONDON, Nov. 7. (Special.) Ac cording to the Westminster Gazette, there are in the post of Tsing-Tau nine men-of-war. Including a German cruis er, four German gunboats, three Ger man destroyers and an Austro-Hungarian cruiser. In addition to five Ger- t Concluded- on Page 6.)
