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6 TnE STINT) AY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, MARCH 2S, 1915. mm raid in NORTH IS CHECKED ; German Cavalry Plays Lead it ing Part in Driving Enemy From East Prussia. IfJEW OFFENSIVE IS BEGUN jC'wtr's Army Thought to Hare Filled Gaps Censed by Victory of Von Hindenbnrg, Preparatory to ; 1 BesiuniDg Operations. MAP SHOWING SCENE OF OPERATIONS IN EAST, AND PORTRAIT OF GALLANT AUSTRIAN WHO DEFENDED PRZEMSTL TINTIL. ITS FALL. to RUSI.TV March 27. bv wireless Eayville, N. T. The Russian offensive increment against tne Kast Prussian territory to tne norm 01 -iiuut . its end last Friday nlKht with the -vulsion of tbe last Russian from the province. The Invaders were thrown back cross the border after a brief but lini-d (Irht and the Germans advanced 1o a point in front of Polang-en. The ' Jtuxstans were at Krottinpen and Jakabon-. Steps have been taken to jruaxd the inhabitants of this district igulnst further Invasion of this kind. Cavalry played a arreat part In driving 'tne ftusian8 out 01 r.asi rnuwM. reason was that a heavy fop made the - M . J 1 1 inf.jntrtr i i f 1 1 1 1 The Infantrymen were hindered also by TO swampy nature vl m c uuiu u the hirh water, wnicn preveniea rapt "(pursuit. FiiKitivea Already Retnralns. Although the damage done by th KITIUUa lu una -u n i . . . i- ... v . ...... . . . it is not as great as had been feared A large number f the fugitives ' Blready have returned to their homes, while .others are returning-, and the damages will soon be completely re jiaired. The conclusion appears to be jus tified today that the- Uussian ad vance on Memcl. on the Baltic in East JTussia, had a certain connection with the general renewal of Russian offen sive activity, the purpose of which,, according- to military opinion in Berlin, dppears to have been another threat Hgainst East Prussia. Ruaalaa Gap. Are Killed. Th offensive against Memel was closely followed by advances in the direction of Tilsit through Tauroggen, Through Maxiampol and finally through .Augustowo. This offensive activity Is taken In Berlin to indicate that the Russians have finished filling out the gaps in their line caused by the latest vic tory over them of Field Marshal von Hindenburgr, and that they are now j-cady for new operations. The German War Office today .an nounced: "Russian troops who started from Tauroggcn to loot Tilsit in the same way they looted - Memel have been repulsed near Lamgrszarseu. They suf fered heavy losses and wore driven lack over the Jediorunpa River. "Several Russian advances between Augustowo forts and the Vistula have lioen repulsed, and in some places this lighting continues." JM1ZK.MYSIS GU5S DESTKOVED ..Austrian Then "Leave Everything to Chivalry of Enemy. " BERLIN, via London, March 27. A striking story of the last days of the Austrian stronghold of Przemysl has lcen sent by the correspondent of the Ucrlin Lokal Anzeiger at Austrian press headquarters, who obtained his Information from an Austrian aviation Lieutenant named Stanger. The Lieu tenant and Pilot Captain Lehmann were the only aviators who left the Przemysl fortress on the last day of its existence who have as yet reported to the Austrian authorities. According to Lieutenant Stanger, as early as De cember the rations of the defenders grew scarce and the allotments were -ut down. They virtually gave out March 18. Bread had long since" been unknown, llorsemeat and rice lasted, th" longest. The condition of the defenders was in every way precarious. Two hun dred died each day during the last few days of the siege, and there were no fewer than 28,000 men in hospitals. It was consequently decided, March 18. to make a final attempt to break through the Russian line, but the attempt was doomed to failure. The llonveds and some older troops tallied out on this last expedition sing ing but the flesh was weaker than the spirit. It took them seven hours to march seven kilometers (four miles, and many exhausted men were left along te way. ...... The'e.tpedition fought bravely, but it was forced to retreat at 10 o'clock in the morning. It had to return a dis tance of 14 kilometers (ten miles) be fore it reached tho protection of the forts. Nevertheless, the Honveds cam back singing as they had gone out. The Russians, who saw from the con dition of the captives made by them how desperate was the plight of the garrison, began their bombardment the night of March 20. only a few hours after the exhausted members of the expeditionary force had returned to the forts. The commandant decided that the fortress must be held until 5 o'clock in the morning of March 22. Prepara tions were made to destroy the fortifi cations and the artillery. The Infantry regiments were withdrawn from their position, and the civilian population of Przemysl was assembled outside the zone of danger. Then the work of destruction began. The method was this: . . . V motor howitzer was loaded as usual and then the gun was filled with sand. It was then fired, with the re ault that the explosive force, thrown back into the grun. wrecked it and its immediate surroundings. Five Russian officers and 2000 sol diers, prisoners of war, were in the fortress when it fell. - An Austrian officer was posted on the ruins of each fort and provided with a white flag. He was instructed to make this announcement to the Rus- elHis excellency cannot hold the fort any longer on account of lack of provi sions, and he leaves everything to the chivalry of the enemy." Przemvsl finally fell, the correspond ent of the Lokal Anzeiger declares, but not a single stone had been captured by armed force. MEnEL9 men aust-riams Mk. v RUSSIANS .. . v zo 7s as I 00 German f- ff .;B 2 a"0"168 j X i If . gr '4 t iWy iSQir aia "N il y Vf"' V'V APPROXIMATE PRESENT POSITIONS OP VARIOUS ARMIES SHOWN. AT LEFT, GENERAL VON KUSMANCK. The position of the opposing armie3 in the eastern theater of war likely will be radically changed by the capitulation of the Austrian garrison of Przemysl. The huge Russian, army that has been investing the fortress may be sent north to aid in driving back the Germans who have been pressing toward Warsaw, or It may engage the Austrian forces to the west whose business it is to defend Cracow and the routes to Vienna and Berlin. New activity In the north has resulted In the Prussian border town Memel being made the center of heavy fighting. Germans and Russians have held it alternately. BATTLE IS FURIOUS Contending Armies Confronted by Fearful Weather. MANY 'PRISONERS TAKEN Garden Leeturc Given at Dufur. DVFVH. Or.. March 27. (Special.) M. C. Marris. of the field department of the Oregon Agricultural College, deliv ered an address in the Methodist Epis copal Church last night on school gar dens. Mr. Harris, in company with Su perintendent Bonney, is making a tour of the Wasco County schools. A fair will be held at Dufur this Fall to dis play the products of the school gardens. The fair will precede the County Fair, and the beat of the produce will be taken to the latter exhibition at The Dalles. ' AusUians Strongly Reinforced and Vienna Says Ilussian Offensive lias Broken Down Petro grad Tells of Gains. LONDON, March 27. Reports from both Russian and Austrian sources reaching London today Indicate tnai the battles in the Carpathians are ras ing with unabated fury, under weather conditions the most terrible of the war. The Austrians evidently are strongly reinforced and Vienna declares -that the Russian .offensive has miscarried. Petrograd makes no mention of this. Todays qfficial report of the Russian general staff, received from Petrograd, 6aid: "To the west of middle isiemen on the right bank of the Narew and on the left bank of the Vistula there has been no essential change in the situation. In the Carpathians we nave maoe considerable progress in the direction of Bartfeld. The Austrlans in falling back set fire to the village or z,ooro. Russians Take 2SOO Prisoners. In the direction of Baligrod we have carried a fortified height east of ia voljelz. Near Russkedydinva and Kozieuwka we suecessiuiiy repeuea important forces of the enemy. In the course of the xlay we made prisoners of about 2500 Austrian soldiers. De- sides 40 officers, and we captured seven machine guns. In Eastern Galicia we drove back a battalion which crossed the Dniester near Jojava, inflicting heavy losses. The Petrograd War Office issued the following supplementary statement, dealing with the fall of Przemysl, to night: ' , "The German press asserts that the garrison of IriemysK aia not exceea 25,000 men: that the supplies would have lasted a long time it the garrison had not been compelled to share its scanty rations" with an enormous num ber of Russian prisoners captured dur ing the course of sorties: that the fall of Przemysl has no military impor tance, and that the Russians have de stroyed S00 towns and villages In Galicia, of which 250 were razed to the ground. Army of 135,000 Captured. "AH such assertions are malicious inventions. We captured at Przemysl an army of about 125,000. Its detailed composition and the names of the lead ers will be published immediately they are compiled. The Russians whom we liberated at Przemysl numbered only 1350. most of them wounded. "The importance the enemy attached to Przemysl may be judged by the in numerable sacrifices made in attempts to relive the garrison, dating back to November. No town or village in Gali cia was destroyed or razed." WAR MEMORJAL IS BEGUN (Continued Prom First Pagg.) own country and in the world. It hus bands and gives useful direction to the contributions moved by pity and love of man. It is not an organza tion having a temporary or an ephemeral existence, due to one great national or world affliction, but it is a permanent Institution, available for National and world exigencies as a fire department or a police department in a large community, or aA army and a navy in .National emergency. We should, therefore, unite our efforts to strengthen it. to add to its endow ment funds and to 'recognize it as a quasi-public agency. "Because of he National significance, both historical and present, of this structure, it is most fitting that the cornerstone should be laid by the President-bf the United States." Chaplain Frays for Peace. Rev. Henry L. Couden, chaplain of the House of Representatives, in his invocation, prayed for Red Cross work ers In the present "cruel and unprece dented war," and expressed the hope that out of it will come "a revulsion of feeling that shall banish forever the possibilities of war." Miss Boardman gave credit to Cap tain James A. Scrymser, of New York, for making the building possible. Cap tain Scrymser gave money for the building, she said, because the wife of one of his comrades in the Civil War, General Francis C. Barlow, served as a nurse during the war. Mrs. E. H. Harriman, Mrs. Russell Sage, the Rockefeller Foundation and Mrs. Adolphus Busch, of St. Louis, also were thanked by Miss Boardman for contributions toward the building. Assistant Secretary Breckenrldge and Justice Lamar praised the wongt of women of the North and the South dur ing the Civil" War. ' Justice Lamar de clared that the work of the women "was pre-eminently that which belongs to the house and the home, and it is most appropriate that this monument to women should he a house." The building is to be completed by April. 1916. Congress appropriated $400,000 for it and the additional $400. 000 was raised by private subscriptions. HOLLAND IS ANGRY LUNCHEON ON ARGENTINE BATTLE. SHIP ON PROGRAMME. Developments in European and Mexican Situations to Be Communicated Constantly by Wlrelens. WASHINGTON, March 27. President Wilson will take a short vacation, be ginning tomorrow night and lasting until Tuesday morning, going to An napolis to attend a luncheon in his honor on board the new Argentine battleship Moreno Monday as the guest of Dr. Romulo S. Naon, the Argentine Ambassador. The President will go to Annapolis on the Mayflower, accom nanieri by- Secretary Daniels, of the Navv Department; Secretary Tumulty, Dr. Cary T. Grayson ana several navai aides. He will leave nere at i ociocs. tomorrow night. The Moreno, according to dispatches from Philadelphia, was in collision with a barge oft New Castle. Del., last night on her way to Hampton roads, but ap parently was not damaged, and will be off Annapolis next Monday. Dr. Naon will go to Annapolis wun members of his staff by train. The President recently received at the White House thehead of the Argentine naval commission and the commander of the Moreno. Throughout the trip to Annapolis the President will be in touch with wireless with Washington in order that he may be Informed of any important develop ments in the European and Mexican situations. Canton to Be Called Shameen. ! NEW YORK. March 27. The Com mercial Cable Company announced to day that it had been notified by the Chinese Telegraph Administration that from April 1 the city of canton win be known for telegraph and cable pur poses as Shameen, which is the for eign quarter of the city. Carriage Plant Has Costly Fir. CAMDEN, N. 3-, March 27. Fire swept throusrh a part of the plant of the Col lins Carriage Company here today, caus ing a loss estimated at $loo,oou.. A large number of automobiles wnicn were pe- Ing resairett were destroyed. German Right to Sink Prizes, However, Is Conceded. ULTIMATUM IS NOT GIVEN Observers Believe Berlin, to Avoid Complications, May Attribute Attacks to Excess of Zeal by Submarine Officer. THE HAGUE, via London, March 27. Germany has informed the Minister of The Netherlands at Berlin that the investigation into the seizure by Ger man submarines of the Dutch steamers Zaanstroom and Batavier V has not yet been concluded. Ai explanation of these acts was asked, for by the Minister. The vessels In question were seized while en route to England and taken into Zeebrugge. The German government has sent a special official to that port to inves tigate and his report is awaited with much interest. The Minister has been charged also to secure from the German govern ment an explanation of the sinking, March 25, off Beachy Head, of the Dutch steamer Medea, bound for Lon don. The Medea was torpedoed by the German subnjarine U-28. A Netherlands statesman closely connected with the government and fully cognizant of the action taken in formed the Associated Press today there was no truth in current rumors of a Dutch ultimatum to Germany, but immediately the report of the sinking of the Medea was received a tele graphic inquiry had been sent to Ber lin. What is described as (the high handed procedure of the German sub marines has aroused indignation among all classes in Holland. Under the declaration of London, however, it Is admitted in semi-official circles here, German warships have a right to sink a vessel captured, if the German naval commanders considered that to convoy them as prizes to the nearest port, in this Instance Zeebrugge, would place their own vessel In danger. , France and Great Britain, it is con tended here, do not need to sink their prizes, as their ports are open. Some observers here are of the opin- RECIPE FOR BALD HEADS Well-Known Politician Nearly Bald Now Haa New Growth of Hair. Tells How He Did It. A Western politician, well known on account of his baldness and his ready wit, surprised his friends by appearing with a new growth of hair. Many of his friends did not know him, and others thought he had a wig. On be ing asked how he did it, he made the following statement: "I attribute the growth of my hair to the following simple recipe, which any lady or gen tleman can mix at home: . 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GRAY Apparel of exclusive designs for particular men and women. : . . l. . . . -Acmonv In nrrlff in avoid further complications, may attribute the capture of the Batavier V and the Zaanstroom and the sinking of the nAHa in rYceM of zeal on the Dart of the commander of the U-28. MAX WITHOUT COUNTRY SUCCORED BY LODGE BRETHREN. Discovery That Malady Was Incurred After Entrance to Country Brings Release From Steamship. NEW YORK, March 27 Nathan Cohen, who as an insane person, trav eled more than 33.000 miles on a 145 steamship ticket, because neither this country, from which he was deported, or Brazil, from where he emigrated, would admit him, has ended his trav els. He was to have started back to Brazil on his fourth round trip aboard the steamship Vasari, of the Lamport & Holt line, today, but friends took him off the vessel five minutes before she sailed. They presented a stay to the order of deportation, which was se cured at Washington. It was learnad several days ago that a man named Nathan Cohen was a member of tho Knights of Pythias lodgo in Jacksonville, Fla, A repre sentative of the lodge came here and found out that the Cohen detained aboard the Vasari was the same man. The Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of America was communi cated with, anS it was then learned that Cohen became insane after his entrance to this country as the result of a series of business troubles. This fact was communicated to the immigra tion officials at Washington and the stay was issued. Cohen was taken to Ellis Island from the steamer late to day. He will be released upon a bond of $500 as soon as it can be arranged. Tho bond will be supplied jointly by the aid society and the fraternal order. WIRE-TAPPINGJS COSTLY Two-Year Sentence to Trison and Fine of $3000 Meted Out. TOLEDO, O., M"arch 27. Two years in Moundsville, W. 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