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THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, APItrL 25, 1915. HEAVY GUNS USED Ifj CARPATHIANS Petrograd and Vienna Tell of Renewed Fighting and Enormous Losses. RUSSIANS CAPTURE HILLS , '.Both Sides Say Attempts or Other to Advance Have Been Repulsed and Both Agree Sanguinary Battles Are Raging. PETROGRAD. via London. April 24. The following Russian oficial atate ment was sriven out tonight: "In the Carpathians, during April 22 and the night of April 23. the Austrian3, after long preparations with heavy gunn, delivered a series of attacks against the heights occupied by us in the region of Polen, but they were re pulsed with enormous losses. The Austrians also failed In the at-empts in the daytime to attack our positions in the region of Volosate. "We progressed today in the region of Telepotch and farther southeast at Sianka. Our troops after desperate fighting captured a series of important hills. "Elsewhera en our front there have been only fusillades and cannonading." VIENNA, via London. April 24. The "War Office gave out the following statement today: "At some points near Uzsok heavy artillery engagements are proceeding, with some Russian day attacks, which were repulsed. Russian nignt attacks along the west of the Turka road failed, with great losses to the enemy. "Otherwise" - the- . situation ' is tin-changed." TRIESTE STILL DISTURBED Situation Aggravated by' Apparent Preparation's for Siege. ROME, via Paris. April 24. Alarm ing reports from Trieste still are being received from the frontier. Most of the male residents of the city are serv ing in the army and the majority , of those remaining are said to have been arrested for' participating in', anti-war demonstrations. So many were taken Into custody that not all of them could be lodged in the prison and the police chief asked permission from the mu nicipality to transform a large school building into a jail. The shops of the city have been closed for fear of pil lage. The' Mayor attempted to quell the disorders by announcing that suffi cient bread would be baked to supply the needs of the population and that potatoes would be sold for 5 cents a kilo (2.20 pounds). The situation bar been aggravated by the, knowledge that large quantities of supplies have been stored at Pola in preparation for a possible siege. mild crack of the more dangerous bul lets which are passing not far over head. Men Seem to Be Seasick. Some are the color of men about to be seasick. Their officers, too, look foolish and certainly are glad for the company of the regulars who were de taled to "show them the way." These men have had militia training for some years and have been in camp for six months. What must raw levies be like? Men can be so trained in peace that they are good soldiers at the beginning of the war. The Germans. French and English have shown it in this war zone. Our regulars have shown it in every war. Untrained men are never good in their earlier engagements. They are doomed to panic and fright ful loss of life. This slaughter is the gift of the anti militarists to our nation. Our last day in the front began aus piciously with a visit to General Sir Douglas Haig, commander of the first army. General Smith Dorrien com mands the second army. Field Marshal Sir John French commands the whole. In talking with this General I was struck, as I had been in tfie Commander-in-Chief, with the lack of any sign of worry or fatigue. Indeed, from the top down the soldiers are pictures of health. It is the out-of-door life, I suppose. Aeroplanes Are Wonderful. From the General's headquarters we motored to the headquarters aviation field. I wish time had permitted a longer stay with this new "arm" of the military service. The machines are far ahead of anything in America, But. the men were more interesting than the machines. They are the "find" of the war. At the outset doubts were enter tained as to their ability to do military work and they have excelled both the Germans and the French! I saw the machine that alone en gaged 12 Germans and brought two to the ground. I was shown the weapon which had been so successful. I did not see what would have interested me more the man who alone steered and shot. The knights of old who were driven from the battlefield by the low-born soldier with the musket must now yield even the field of romance to the oily mechanic I was unacountably pleased to learn from Colonel , who commanded at headquarters, that the biplane has definitely asserted its superiority to the monoplane in speed, weight-carry- ng and stability. He gave all the credit for the aero plane to "Wright and said that improve ments were easy tq make. The plane as developed as a flying machine is lneffecient for all military purposes, viz., observation, bomb-drop- in g, aiLacn ana aeiense. I saw a machine almost completed which was designed to overcome these defects. It is radically different in appearance from the other types. ir you read aoout phenomenal ac omplishments by a British airman about the time this reaches home, you wm Know tnat the machine "worked." The British air army has the won derful record of not one fatality from accident since the war started. And. trangely enough, its proportion of loss from all causes is less than that of artillery, cavalry, or infantry. SENATOR BORAH IS HOE PRESIDENTIAL NOMI9TATIOX WOT TO BE REFUSED IF OFFERED. PROGRESSIVE HOPE C1INGS Washington Chairman, Back, De clares No-Surrender Policy. SPOKANE. Wash., April 24. L. Roy Flater. Progressive state chairman, who returned today after five months' ab sence from the 6tate, announced his own adherence to a no-surrender pol icy for the Washington Progressives. He said he took is at a simple duty of politics for the captain to be the last man to leave tae snip. The Progressive party, he- said, ei ists in Washington despite the fact that United States Senator Miles Poin dexter. Progressive, has announced he will seek re-election as a Republican. The state chairman praised the work of Senator Poindexter and said that he should' not be attacked, because he has left the party. FALL ON ICE CAUSES SUIT Miss M. - Condit Asks 1(1,000 From Hippodrome Company. Crossing the ice to see a hockey jrame. Miss Margaret D. Condit slipped. fell and broke her left arm. Yester- day8he brought suit against the Port land Ice Hippodrome Company for ?10, 000 damages. The accident occurred February 18 Miss Condit avers that she was di rected by employes of the Ice rink to walk across the 6heet of ice in order to get a good seat. She says her ett wrist is permanently injured. EXPERIENCE IS LACKING (Continued From First Page.) were offered a cup of tea at battalion headquarters, which turned out to be a comfortably sized tar paper struc ture, well ventilated by bullet holes. Several subalterns there engaged in that favorite English pastime consoled us with the information that we had penetrated nearer to the front than any civilians and that the trench was beast ly muddy. The number of-trained officers in the British empire at the outbreak of war was hardly double those we have in America. The war has taken most of them. The new crop are lacking in expert ence. and it may be in military educa tion, but when the- attack' is sounded these "subs" will get forward all the faster for lack of those years that bring discretion. As we left the headquarters our at tention was called to the crack of bul lets passing overhead. Our hosts were well disposed and led us to the rear of a house from which watch was kept on a part of the enemy's line. Soldier's Belt Stops Bullet. The hole in the roof was only a peep hole and a dark cloth was hung back of the watcher's head so that his co lng and going could not be seen by a watchful sniper. The Germans now opened quite an artillery and rifle fire. Someone sug (rested that It was to welcome the ter- ' ritorial troops that were coming into the trenches that evening. As we passed toward the path to th rear a soldier offered me a bulle which ho said had Just gone through a tree in front and struck him in th belt. The bullet was not dated, bu 1 gave him a shilling for the memento. As we pass to the rear we stand aside to give room to a company or terrlto rialct coming in. Hero is a new kind of British sol " dlcr. That man with spectacles i surely a lawyer or scholar. This fat captain of 40 has not "kept fit" as a regular officer would. That tired boy with the sore re palms is not used to spade and pickax The high explosive sneiis BreaRin out of range have a horrid sound. The serve to distract attention from the VILLAGE TAKEN AND LOST BY GERMANS Battle Line Swings To and Fro as Conflict Increases in '- Intensity in West. 5 BIG MINES EXPLODED Candidacy. However, la Denied and Re publylcan Victory la Predicted. Rain Braved for Welcome. BOISE. Idaho. April 24. fSDecial.) United States Senator Borah returned home tonight folliwing an absence from laano of more than two years. He said that he had nothing to add to the stand he already has taken in regard to mention made of him as a Presi dential aspirant, declaring that he was not a candidate for the nomination and did not expect that it would be offered to him. He reiterated his statement made some time ago that he would not refuse the nomination should it be of fered him. "There should be a Republican vic tory in 1916," said Senator Borah. "Pro tection talked in the South during the next campaign should give the party the votes following the present expe rience the people are haviag." 'I have come home to rest and not to talk politics," said Idaho's senior Senator. "I expect to remain in Idaho probably until next September." A reception was tendered Senator Borah on his return by his friends and ardent supporters. A large committee met him at Nampa and escorted him to Boise, where several hundred' people stood in the rain awaiting his arrival. Paris Report Says, However, That Allies Beat Enemy to Excava tions French Iose Trench In Ailly "Wood, hut Regain It. PARIS, April. 24 Ten following offi cial communication was issued by the War Office tonight: "To the north of Tpres the Germans, in the night of April 23-24 and during Saturday, made strenuous efforts to avail themselves of the surprise they had engineered the day before yester day with their asphyxiating gases. Their attempts failed. "On Saturday at daybreak, on the left bank of the yser, they had succeeded in carrying the village of Lizerne. The French Zouaves and Belgian carabi neers, however, through a vigorous at tack, recaptured the village, which we soon left behind us. "In conjunction with the eBlgian army, we made perceptible progress on our left. On our right we advanced more slowly. "During that time the British troops were subjected to a fierce attack. They immediately replied by a counter-attack, the result of which is not yet known. N Five Great Mines Exploded. "In Champagne, on the northern sa lient of the Beausejour blockhouse, the Germans exploded five powerful mines near our trenches. Despite the violence of the explosion, our troops, utstripping the enemy, at once occupied the exca vations, which were about 75 feet in diameter. "Fierce encounters have taken place in the Ailly wood, where the Germans are making desperate efforts to recap ture' the 700 metres of trenches (about half a mile), which we took from them on April 22. Thus we were forced to evacuate this morning a section of these trenches, but we retook it in the course of the day and now hold it. "In the forest of Apremont and at the Tete-de-Vache (Cow's Head) the ene my shelled our positions violently, but there was no further attack." The earlier official report of the war office today said: "Supplementary reports furnish fuller particulars of the way the Germans succeeded in forcing our lines back during Thursday evening north of Tpres. between the Yser Canal and the oBel Caplle road. Asphyxiating- Gases Far Reaching. "Thick yellow smoke emitted from the German trenches, and, driven by northerly winds, produced an effect of complete asphyxiation among our troops, which was felt eyen in our second-line positions. "Counter attacks made yesterday al ready have enabled us to regain part of the ground lost. Our situation has been completely consolidated and our action is being carried out under good conditions with the support of the British and Belgian troop. "The enemy made an attack at Les Eparges and another at Lueshead in the forest of Apremont, both of which were repulsed. "A German attack south of the for est of Parroy, and further attacks on Reich Ackerkopf, were stopped by our fire. The enemy suffered heavy losses. GER3IAXS CAPTURE 85 GTJXS Enemy's Effort to Regain Ground in Belgium Declared Failure. BERLIN, April 24. By wireless to Sayville, N. Y. The German . general headquarters gave out the following official statement: "Attempts made by the' enemy to re conquer lost terrain, to the north and northeast of Ypres (Belgium) failed. The French and British attacks broke down under the German fire. The num ber of prisoners (French, English and Belgian) rose to 2470. The pieces of cannon captured up to the present total 35. In addition a large number of ma chine guns and rifles and much ammu nition and other war material were taken by the Germans. West of the Ypres Canal the Germans stormed the town or Jjlzerne. "In the Champagne region the Ger mans blasted an enemy trench. Near Beausejour the French shelled their own trenches with artillery. "Between the Meuse and the Moselle French attacks failed. The enemy, who had entered the German trenches, were ejected. "In the forest of Le Pretre the Ger mans made progress. "In the Vosges there were no war operations on account of the fog and snow." DAT IS SAVED BY . CANADIANS i i Four Guns Captured by Germans .Retaken In Counter-Advance. LONDON. April 24. The war office today gave out the following, official note: "The fight for the ground into which the Germans penetrated between Steenstraate and Langemarck still con tinues. ilTe loss of this part of the line laid bare the left of the Canadian division, which was forced to fall back in order to keep in touch with the right of the neighboring troops. "In the rear of the latter had been four Canadian 4.7 guns, which thus passed into the hands of the enemy. But some hours later the Canadians made a most brilliant and successful advance, recapturing these guns and taking a considerable number of Ger man prisoners. Including a. Colonel. "The Canadians had many casual ties, but their gallantry and determina tion undoubtedly saved the situation. Their conduct has been magnificent throughout." REGENT WILLING TO YIELD Judge Smith, of Baker, Says Attorney-General's Opinion Will Decide. BAKER. Or.. April 24. (Special.) Contradicting the report that be and Frederick V. Holman had refused to yield their positions as regents of the University of Oregon to their succes sors, C. C. Colt and Henry M. McKin ney, respectively. Judge William Smith said today that, while it is an open question as to which two are really in office, he has already written to Mr. McKlnney .congratulating him and asking him to seek the advice of Attorney-General Brown in the matter. "According to the statute, Mr. Hol man and myself are practically out of office," he said, "but according to an other section new regents must be ap proved by the Senate after having been appointed by the Governor. One thing is certain. Neither Mr. Holman nor myself has 'refused' to give up the of' fice. It does not belong to us. Our action in this matter will be controlled by the opinion of the Attorney-General." BABES SOOTHED AT SERMON Mining Town Pastor, While Music Is Played Softly, Addresses Mothers. BAKER, Or., April 24. (Special.) So successful has been the plan to hold special services for babies the Pres byterian Church of Bourne will try the idea frequently. While Bourne is mining town, its church has adopted many progressive ideas,- and among them was a cradle role, and an extra effort has been made to make the serv ices interesting to little ones not yet able to crawl. While babies cooed and prattled spe clal music that would sooth them -was given last Sunday, and Pastor Morris gave a short sermon that would appeal to the mothers. The church was crowd ed and the babies seemed impressed. some of them easily falling into the time-Honored habit of going to sleep during the sermon. - SECOND BATTLE WIDENING - (Continued From First Page.) I Told You Two 'Weeks Ago to Buy It Now! I am telling you again today buy the things you need now get the full benefit of the season's wear. Put the money to work and it will soon re turn to you. Begin buying now and you will soon be a seller as well as a buyer, and that's what makes business good. Try it out at any rate. Begin the good work by coming here for your clothes. Our Spring styles are now all here ready to be looked over. Chesterfield Clothes give you the right insurance protection to the last de gree a new suit for the old one that hasn't given value received. Hats and Furnishings to go along that will make up the well-dressed man. Suits $20 to $40. Reasonable prices on any articles of apparel you may need. R fflP A V Washington o IViLo UjrjLVi- JL at West Park BRITISH STEAMER HELD VILLA FORCES ASSESS FITSE OF 960,000 AT EXSENADi. who roamed about the campus and hid behind trees. Barefooted, hatless and scantily clad, the knight of the road, who gave his name as Joseph Williams, was arrested. He says he has no home. Cetrlana'a Captain, Mate and Wireless Operator Reported to Have Beea Held In ' Detention Aore. SAN FRANCISCO, April 24. (Special.) Villa forces have seized the British steamer Cetriana at Enaenada, Mexico, and are holding: ship and captain and crew, in the port, according to a dis patch from the commander. Captain Kerr, received today by the owners, Dodwell & Co., of this city. The Cetriana was due in San Fran cisco tomorrow with a full cargo of general merchandise from Mexican and Central American ports. having; left here recently for the Mexican coast loaded with California products. It is reported that the steamer's captain, first officer and two wireless operators are held in detention ashore. According to their report, the Cetriana put in at Ensenada today with Chinese for landing there while bound from Mazatlan with gold and silver bullion, consigned by General Iturbe for delivery at San Diego. The Mexican au thorities, it is said, asserted the Cetriana's papers were irregular and are said to have placed a tine of (50,000 on the ship. the German asphyxiating shells re mains a mystery to the general public, Whatever the gas is it spreads rapidly and remains close to the ground. It-is believed not to be especially deadly. It overpowers its victims and puts them hors du combat for a few days without killing many. The effect at Bixschoote may have been due to the panic caused by the new device. Composition and manner of discharge probably are not a mystery . to the scientific artillerists of the allies. That such devices might be used in war have been known for a long time, but the positive prohibitions of the Hague con ference have operated to discourage ex periments in this line. All the six eonff of John and Mary Wheat land, of South Croyden. England, axe in the royal army. Their ages range from IS to 3T years. BRIDE FLEES OVER ROOF Newlyweds Escapo Friends Intend ed Shower of Rice. NEW YORK. April 16. Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Michelson, who were married in the home of the bride's parents are glad they are leaving for Bermuda. Ever since the bride has been at the Waldorf-Astoria she has been in con stant dread that some of her many friends will come around again with rice that she and Mr. Michelson man aged to escape when they were wed. Friends of Mrs. Michelson said. that the bride and her husband were forced to leave the home of Mr. and Mrs. Julius Wodiska, in West One Hundred and Thirteenth street, by getting over the roof into the adjoining house, and it is further said that during this or deal Mrs. Michelson and her husband feared that they both might be mis taken for burglars. Tramp Puts Vassar Girls in Panic. POUGHKEEPSIE, April 19. Several hundred Vassar Collesre girls were thrown into a panic while on their way to chapel by the appearance of a tramp KAISER INTERVIEWING RUSSIAN PRISONER ON EASTERN BATTLE FRONT. - , - V , i, k i f , l v - rr- - n , - - v-t I C vv? i ?. v i - 1 Cv . - '.J - A U it a - ; - vopW'2- B n v r 1 - - - "1 r- 2 A I - ' EJIFEHOK WIUJAM 41 LEFTi PR ISOAKR AT RIGHT. -Photo by Underwood & Underwood, Suit Hinges on Way Shoes Flew. NEW YORK April 18. Did Charles O'Donnell, an actor, throw his shoes at his pretty wife, Ida Kegina O'Donnell. with malicious Intent? This question is before Justice Ncwburger. Mrs. O'Donnell filed a separation suit, alleg ing he hurled them with unmistakable force. He denies it. 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