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AMERICA VIEWED AS COFillTTEOBYIJOTE London Editor Says, However, Country Is Not Necessar- -ily Pledged to War. REFUSAL IS PREDICTED Uinperor William's Greatest Miscal culation, Another Declares, Was in His Estimate of Mr. Wil i son and United States. LONDON, June 12. The Evening Standard says editorially today on the subject of the American note to Ger many: "The first-note submitted a point of Tiew; the second demands assurances that, this point of view will be ac cepted. By putting forward this definite demand, the United States has irrevocably committed itself. Refusal on the part of the German govern ment and the language of the German press makes it difficult to believe in the possibility of anything but a refusal can no longer be accepted with sor rowful acquiescence. The United States is pledged to action of some sort, though by no means warlike action. It all depends on the Germans." German Food Supply Admitted. Continuing, the Standard argued that the Germans, now that their food supplies have been proved ample, can afford to suspend the submarine block tide. In a two-column tribute to President "Wilson. Alfred G. Gardiner, editor of the Daily News, says: "No man in the democratic world today is &o entirely governed by prin ciple and moral sanctions. President Wilson is not merely the first citizen of the United States, but the first citizen of the world. He makes mis takes, no doubt, for he Is human, bat they never are the mistakes of a weak man.; they never are the mistakes of a. political gambler or one touched by sordid motives of ambition. Mr. Wilson Incorrectly Estimate. "Kmperor William has made many miscalculations about nations and men, but his greatest miscalculation was in regard to Mr. Wilson and the United States. Incidentally, there also has been much misconception on the same subject in this country. Through the war his attitude has conformed to the historic tradition of the United States on nonintervention in European affairs, but he realizes the world has changed and the United States can no longer remain hermetically sealed. "He will not go to war if war can be avoided with honor, but the integrity of the United States is his supreme con cern, and it is safe in his hands." r.nis snows admiration "Solemn Representations" Held to Embody Spirit of Note. PATHS. June 12. Unqualified admi ration for the firm, dignified and cour teous tone' of President Wilson's note to Germany is expressed by the news papers of this city. While it is consid ered in no sense an ultimatum, the press contends the language is so clear it leaves no room for dilatory tactics or a complex controversy. President Wilson, it is held, goes straight to the point. The wordu "solemn representations," which appear in the note, says the Petit Parisien, sum up its spirit. Not withstanding the perfect politeness of its tone, the paper asserts such words are not used in diplomatic documents except in periods of real tension. They are held to show that Presi lry and nothing will induce him to dent Wilson has decided upon his pol alter it. AUSTRIAN PRESS KEEPS COOL- JfoLhin- Scon to Cause War Between Germany and United State?. ZURICH, Switzerland. June 12. The retirement of William J. Bryan as Secretary of State has been taken coolly in Austria, judging by the Austrian newspapers which have reached Zurich. Generally, they are of the opinion that nothing is likely to happen to endanger the relations between th United States and Germany. The papers say that if, President Wilson really desires peace Germany will do hrr best to aid him, and tbt in any event it is better to await develop ments before expressing further opinion. BRYAN' HELD LIRE tUOL-ITTI 31 i Ian Newspaper Thinks Resigna tion Will Help Wilton. MILAN. Italy, via Chiasso, Switzer land. June 12. The Correrie della Sera compares the attitude of Secretary Bryan with that of ex-Premier Giolitti, leader of the party which sought to prtyent war with Austria. It says Mr. Bryan's action probably will have the same effect in America that Slgnor Oiolitti's intervention had in Italy, and that it will strengthen public opinion in favor of President Wilson. "It will give him greater power in this important moment." the newspaper adds, "defeating men who are ready to lower the prestige and honor of the country." BRYAN SAYS NOTE CHANGED (Continued From First Pagre. ) asked, "does it not open the way for further negotiations with Germany?" "I can only reiterate what I have said, that the note was softened," Mr. Bryan replied, "but not sufficiently to justify me in asking permission to withdraw my resignation." In his statement tonight Mr. Bryan replied to published charges of incon sistency because he signed the first note following the Lusitania incident and refused to sign the second. "The notes," he said, "must be con sidered in connection with the condi tions under which they were sent. The first note presented the case of this Government upon such evidence as we then had. It was like the plaintiff's statement in a case, his claim being based upon the facts as he sees them. I did not agree entirely with the lan guage of the first note, but the dif ferences were not so material as to justify a refusal to sign it. Then, too, I was at that time hoping that cer tain things would be done which would make it easier for Germany to ac quiesce in our demands." Air. Bryan then repeates in his state- WOUNDED GENERAL CHECKS ADVANCE OF PRINCE. " GENERAL DE MA D'HUY. General de Mau d'Huy, who was recently wounded in the action now in progress in Flanders, baa the distinction of never having lost a trench since he took command of the right wing of General Foch'a army. Though scarcely known in France, his ability is winning- for him the recognition he justly de serves. His command holds the ground from the vicinity of Avesnes. in the rear of Arras, through which the Germans under the Crown Prince of Bavaria are attempting to force an opening wedge, to Amiens, where General de Cas telnau is in command. In close conjunction with the armies of the north, the armies of General de Mau d'Huy and General de Castelnau held, without flinch ing the line between the Lys and Noyon. In the early days of the fighting, with but a handful of territorials, he stopped the Prussian Guard before Arras shortly after the battle of the Marne. a ment the three things be had empha sized in his proposals, namely, that the United States should offer to employ the principle of investigation embodied in 30 treaties with other nations, take action which would prevent American citizens from traveling on belligerent ships or American ships carrying con traband of war, and that this Govern ment Bbould protest against interfer ence with American trade with neu trals, i. "No one will be hapier than, I," said Mr. Bryan, "if the President's plan re sults in a peaceful settlement, but no one was in a position to say what ef fect our note would have upon Germany or what results would follow if she in anger broke off diplomatic relations and 1 was not only unwilling to as sume the responsibility for the risks incurred risks which no one could with any degree of accuracy measure but 1 felt that, having done all I could in the Cabinet, it was my-duty to undertake, outside the Cabinet, tho duty upon which. I have entered. Grievance Held Skort of War. ' "I have no doubt that the country will unanimously support the President during the war, if so great a misfortune should overtake us, but I believe that the chances of war will be lessoned in proportion as tho country expresses it self in favor of peace not 'peace . at any price' but peace in preference to a war wared for the rdress of such grievances as we have against Ger many at least against war until we have given to Germany the opportunity which we are pledged to give Great Britain, France and Russiato have every difference of every character submitted to an international commis sion of investigation." The ex-Secretary, with Mrs. Bryan, left tonight for Old Point Comfort to remain until Tuesday. On his return Mr. Bryan expects to announce his plans for the immediate future. Diplomatic Tension Relaxed. Official announcement of the delivery of the American note to the German government was received today from Ambassador Oerard at Berlin. The message came at the close of a day marked by a more optimistic feeling in official quarters that the -German answer would forestall any possibility of war between the nations and also avoid a breach of diplomatic relations. Apparently there was a general re laxation of tension in the international situation. President ' Wilson spent part of the day at golf.' and let it be known that later in the month he planed to take a short vacation at his Summer home in Cornish. N. II. No answer to the American rejoiner i ex pected for ten days at least, and there Is conviction here that the Berlin au thorities will await the arrival there of Meyer Gerhard, official representa tive of Ambassador Bernstorff, before their answer is framed. WORK ON SPUR IS HALTED Proceedings Begun Against Laying Tract at Chehalis. CHEHAUS, Wash, June 12. (Spe cial.) The Puget Sound & Willapa Har bor Railway Company has been halted in its work of constructing the spur of track several blocks in length from its freight depot to the plants of the new cannery erected by . the Lewis County Canning Association and the wood-working plant of the Palmer Lumber & Manufacturing Company. Ties were laid and rails already , had been placed. Injunction proceedings were begun yesterday by W. G. LaFollette, a prop erty owner on the opposite side of the street from the one occupied by the spur. The City Commission recently granted the railroad company a permit to lay the spur on the line formerly occupied by the sidewalk on the east side of the street. Chamber Urges Wood Block Paving. MARSHFIELD. Or., June 12. (Spe cial.) The Chamber of Commerce went on record at its last meeting as cham pion of wood-block paving for Oregon cities, and passed a resolution binding the organization to forward such a movement. The action is considered more of a patriotic and home product crusade than otherwise. THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX. PORTLAND JUNE BAVARIAN CROWN Ji2 T FOE Surprise Attack Through Diffi cult Alpine Passes Fails. . ALARM IS GIVEN QUIETLY Advancing Amorces Deceived Into False Security Until Faternl Moment Then Rain of Bullets Calls Halt. UDINE, Italy, via Chiasso and Paris, June 12. Details have just reached Udine of i the driving back by Italian troops of an Austrian expedition which attempted to surprise an Italian posi tion near Montenero on the Isonzo River line. In the Austrian force were 7000 men, divided into three columns and sup ported, by 12 mountain guns on mule back, which had been taken from the fortifications at Tarvis. The endeavor was to surprise the Italians in the rear. The Austrians advanced through nar row passes. They were, however, quickly seen by the Italian sentinels and the alarm was passed along the Italian lines. The Italians took their positions quietly and were careful to keep out of sight, thus deceiving the Austrians into believing that their advance was btsing made! successfully. At a given moment the Alpine troops and the ber saglicri : opened fire simultaneously. The rain of bullets was kept up until the orders came for a charge. Shout ing "Lour live Savoy," the Italians dashed forward. Although the Austrians fought des perately they were thrown into great disorder and compelled to withdraw. Some of the mules with mountain guns on their backs, as well as several men, fell over a precipice. The losses of the Austrians are said to have been heavy. Italian forces which are advancing from Monfalcone in the direction of Trieste have two immediate objectives. One is to gain possession of the sea coast on the Gulf of Anzano and the other to command the good road which comes down from the mountains at Nabresina, half way between Monfal cone and Trieste. GIRL ADMITS SHE IS SPY Canada Remands Offender to Jail for Aiding German Reservists. - TORONTO. Ont., June 12. Louisa Marksfelt, a girl of 19, who has been under arrest here Bince. May 26, has ad mitted to the police that she is a Ger man spy." She has been remanded to jail for a week. The girl says she was born in Alsace and when the war began was living in Buffalo. She made Niagara Falls, Ont., her headquarters in assisting German reservists to cross over to Buffalo; She -is said to have paid visits during the Winter to the various military camps and to have made an extensive tour of the Canadian West. Send today's Orego nian to your friends back East. Mailed for 5c each at Orego nian Business Office ITALIANS ROU FALL OF PRZEMYSL DUE 10 BIG GUNS Story of Liege Repeated in Austro-German Advance on Galician Fortress. FORTS SCENES OF HORROR Burial of Abandoned Dead Begun While City Celebrates New Oc cupation Russians Orderly While In Possession. Continued From First Page.) bank of the river. From the opposite bank comes the roar of songs as Ger mans go marching in the direction of Lemberg. Motor batteries are moving to the east, decked with flowers and green branches. Every gun crew has become a glee club. Work of Barring Dead Goes . On. Such is the jubilation inside the pre mier border fortress town of Austria, but in the fields outside to the north is the awful stillness of the aftermath of battle. For over two miles the fields are dotted with bodies, and there are burial parties at several points. Rus sian prisoners, are burying their own dead, but in most places Austrian peas ants and German soldiers are digging graves, collecting dead and carrying the bodies in blankets to the graves. The horror of the work under the blazing June sun causes the task to be pushed on with feverish haste, un der the direction of the green-clad Ba varian military police. , The work of burying the dead horses cannot be so rapidly done, and the stench on the northerly slopes of the town is fearful. Already the battlefield is flecked with hastily mada crosses, marking graves sonic o which contain as many as 20 bodies. The roadsides are Strewn with rifles, knapsacks arid clothing. Already this wreckage is being collected and for warded to the German sorting station at Jaroslau. Soldiers Ue as They Fell. The work has not progressed as far as the trenches around the forts. There the dead lie as they fell. Many of the bodies- are stretched at full length on the earthen shelves of trenches, their heads resting on their -arms. It is as if they sleep. In the woods -nearby cuckoos are calling. Where shells struck among massed Russians the scene Is too terrible for description, and I can only say that long contemplation of it would drive a man mad. Even soldiers used to such sights are struck dumb or have re course to three words, "Dass ist krieg" (That is war), which, for them tell the whole story. Farther on the scene loses its aspect of human tragedy and becomes merely sickening, for here a group of caisson horses has been torn to pieces, and their heads are strewn among the trees. Behind the lines of trenches aban doned cannon still stand, and small arms and ammunition that could be gathered by the- bushel have been ground into the earth by the feet of the fleeing troops. On the road to Jaroslau la a ions procession of peasants, who are being moved out of the fire zone, both for their own sakes and to prevent possi ble leakage of information advanta geous to the Russians. Men are driv ing forward herds of long-horned Galician cattle: women struggle for ward with babies at their, naked breasts; children are carrying bits of pottery and other household goods; old women are being transported in the wicker baskets of farm carts. Colts, pigs, and geese run wildly among the throng. People Weary but Fearless. I do not sec one of the weary people shed a tear. The only sound they make Is the cries of the long-haired peasants, driving the frantic cattle. At times the scarlet bodices and skirts of bare legged women give the scene almost a festive aspect. It is like a comic opera troupe gone to chaos. Following the refugees come troops, troops, troops, as far as the eye can carry. Cannoneers are swaying with sleep on the six and eight-horse gun car riages. Hungarian cavalry has taken two poppy-flecked fields on one side of the highway, and uhlans with the Prussian black and white fluttering from their lances are moving amid standing grain on the other side. In fantry is trudging through the dust, the face of every man streaming with perspiration and every uniferm is pow dered. Battalion flags are sheathed in oil cloth. Wagons carrying pontoons make sounds liko approaching thunder. Scores of pieces of heavy artillery follow. All these troops are marching toward the operations progressing north of Jaroslau, from 15 kilometers (9.3 miles) to 20 kilometers (12.4 miles) distant. The rumble of the cannonade up there is incessant. Russian prisoners are being marched forward in detachments of 1000 each. The German officers speak well of them, calling them "gutmuetlfr" (good naturcd), and declaring them to be not bad fellows. Passing the streams outward bound from Przemysl are bod ies or the German landsturm marching into the city to do police work. Whole Villages Wiped Oat. From Jaroslau to Przemysl, a dis tance of 30 kilometers (18.6 miles), the track of the last fortnight's fighting is still unbroken. The few houses still standing are absolutely riddled and whole villages have been obliterated. Hurried talks with substantial citi zens of Przemysl indicate that the Rus sians behaved pretty welL during their long occupation of the town. I hear no talk of atrocities. When Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholaivltch was about to enter Przemysl Russian secret police preceded hlin and ordered the closing of all the windows and the keeping of the population to their houses. But upon his arrival the Grand Duke re scinded these orders ana bade the peo ple come into the streets. During the Russian occupation the Czar and one of his daughters visited the town. At Radyaino a huge church was made a fortress. Its dome is now unroofed and its walls are scarred as if light ning had played over them. "Were people glad when the Aus trians and Germans retook the town?" I asked a citizen. "They wept for joy!" he replied. The same informant said that dur ing the Russian occupation the Musco vite authorities assembled 15,000 of the population dwelling in the Przemysl region, of whom 5000 were sent to Si beria to prevent any possibility of their serving in the Austrian army. In making requisitions on the popula tion the Russians seem to have been not much more high handed than most troops; but any hesitancy or delay in filling them invariably brought threats of Siberia. Russian Soldiers Despondent. Citizens describe the feeling among the Russian common soldiers as most 13, 1915. Great Sacrifice Sale Men's New Suits Every man's suit in the store is deeply cut from the normal price. Buy now every reduction is absolutely genuine. Stein-Bloch and other famous makes are all on sale and every suit is a model of this season. 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The forts here illustrate the terrific power of the Austrian and German guns. One was hit by a shell from a 42-centimetcr (16-inch cannon. Its enormous concrete works were ripped apart, and blocks of reinforced concrete measuring 25 feet long, 20 wide, and 15 high were moved erv masse, while the steel turret, eight feet high and a foot thick, was blown 80 feet across the moat. The German losses are small com pared to the results attained. The Rus sian losses were heavy. REVENUE NEED APPARENT (Continued From Kirwt Page.) ing in the Democratic organization ranks in the House as members lined up behind the rival leaders. President Wilson went, to the aid of Mr." Bryan. In a series of conferences with Under wood and other influential members of the House, he brought about the agree ment for free raw wool and a plan of gradual reduction of the tariff on raw sugar until it should go on the free list in 1916.. Democratic Tarty Stirred. Mr. Underwood and his chief lieu tenant. Claude Kitchin. of North Caro lina, were dissatisfied with the arrange ment, but a caucus dominated by Speaker Clark in the interest of party harmony accepted the compromise plan of the President and Mr. Bryan had his way. It is certain that Democratic politics will be stirred when Congress takes up this Winter the question of raising ad ditional revenues through restoration of tariff duties on sugar and wool. The Bryan men are expected to come out against the proposition, and Mr. Bryan will Issue a loyalty call to all his old followers. Mr. Bryan, however, is out of tune with the Administration on many Important issues, and it is thought he cannot count again on the support of President Wilson to hold the Democrats in line for any of his plans. Conditions will also have changed in the House and Senate. Mr. Underwood, never in favor of free sugar, will be a member of the upper body, and Claude Kitchin, who supported Mr. Underwood, will be the new House leader. Well Named. 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Mr. kSchuebel has not received a copy of the Council request and said to night that he would not make public his decision until the notice had been received. The situation was explained by Judge Gordon E. Hayes, attorney for the lodge, and Mayor Jones, who had discussed the matter with district officials of the lodge. The lodge was raided two weeks ago and two bottles of liquor, one Kederal license and a large number of five gallon demijohns were found. W. Rey nolds, steward of the lodge, who was arrested, entered a plea of guilty and was fined $250. Warrants of arrest were served on all other officers a week ago today, charging a violation of the city liquor ordinance, which is punishable with a fine and jail sen tence. Since the warrants were served Dic tator Noble has resigned: a houso com mittee, composed of Mayor Jones and Councilmen Meng apd Hackett, has been appointed and the bar and fix tures have been removed from the lodgeroom8. A. A. 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