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TIIE SUNDAY OREGONIAX. POETLUfD OCTOBER 31. 1913. COAST SLIGHTED ABSHIP BUILDING l New Ships- Will Likely Be Constructed at, Yards Along Atlantic. MR. DANIELS IS BLAMED Jcfcnte Programme May Increase ?: Local Militia and Naval Re- serve Forts to Get Bigger - - Guns Submarines Coming. t : flREGOXIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington. Oct. 30. The authorization by Congress of the National defense pro gramme to be outlined by the Presi dent will mean heavy expenditures along the Pacific Coast, both by the Army and the Navy. One essential feature of the Army programme looks to the equipping of all harbor defenses with big 16-inch guns, capable of firing greater dis tances than will the guns of any war ship now afloat. The defenses at the mouth of the Columbia River, at the entrance to Puget Sound and at the Oolden Gate, all will be equipped with these monster guns. and. though de tails have not yet been worked out, it is probable that guns of smaller cali ber may be installed in defenses to be erected at the lesser harbors along the coast. . For the Navy increased appropria tions will be made for Puget Sound navy-yard, where the department pro poses to establish a submarine base. Not only will tlio Puget Sound yard be equipped in due time to make re pairs to submarines, but it is the hope of Secretary Daniels that Congress will so equip the Puget Sound yard that it can hereafter build submarines and possibly build destroyers as well. Coast Gets 40 Submarines. t"p to the present time Secretary Daniels has not shown any interest in the proposal to establish a submarine base on the Columbia River, though this propasal may be considered later, as tlie details of the Navy programme are developed. The building plan of the Navy will give to the Pacific Coast, in the course of five or six years, a fleet if 40 or more submarines. The bulk of the submarine fleet will be of the harbor defense type, and one squadron will be detailed to the defense of the Columbia River. The Oregon and Washington militia will share in the benefits of whatever Reneral militia legislation may be enacted by Congress. The National Cuard of those two states stands ex ceptionally well with the War Depart ment, because of its efficiency and the hisrh-rrade of men who compose the several organizations. An effort may be put forth to en courage the building up of artillery branches of the militia in these states. It will not be feasible to establish in the regular Army, under the con templated reorganization, enough field artillery to meet the actual need of the country in time of war. Naval Militia Shows Well. Along with this will be an effort to strengthen the naval militia e :all Coast states. The naval militia of Ore gon and Washington has made a motet creditable showing on recent cruises, but there is a desire on the part of Navy Department officials to greatly increase enlistments in the naval mi litia, in order that the largest possible number of militiamen may be thor oughly trained for duty aboard ship. While the Administration programme provides for a substantial increase in the enlisted personnel of the Navy, and also provides for many more officers, the number authorized will not be ade quate to man all the vessels which are built and in contemplation. As for the building of warships on the Pacific Coast, there is uncertainty. Secretary Daniels is desirous of equip lng three navy-yards on the Atlantic Coast, so that they can build battle ships and battle-cruisers, but he has not been favorable to the idea of build ins? these large ships either at the Puget Sound yard or at Mare Island. In fact, in recent letting of contracts. the Secretary has been disposed to dis regard the private yards on the Pa cific Coast, overlooking the fact that the battleship Oregon was built at San l''raneisco and the-' battleship Nebraska at Seattle. As long as this prejudice continues it is IlRely that on-.- a small part of the building programme will ue put through Pacific Coast yards. RUSSIA IS BROKEN IN TWO (Continued Krjm First Page) the teams of frantic horses drawing the munition - wagons -through '"xnires that would have broken the heart of an elephant. Once past this lashing and shouting, we would hear noth ing for many a verst and see nothing but the red glow in the sky. Spanish Kerisat.crcr Collapses. Once a goat came scampering out of a field and joined us whether for the sake of human companionship or in the hope of being milkep, after days on a deserted countryside nobody could de termine. 'Always she., emitted quite companionable bleats as she trotted along 'with us,' except that sometimes when we paused to deliberate about the correct route she would set up crying that was so much like a child's crying that it was uncanny. Suddenly there was a soft little moan of "Caro mio" behind us, and somebody said, "Was that the - goat or Don Quixote?" It was the don, and after struggling along for hours a bad place in the road had brought him down. The Bulgarian, who is a grenadier of a man, and the Hollander, who is stocky and grim, caught him up in their arms and half carried him through the dark until we found the place where we had had to leave our autos because the roads be yond that point had been reported very bad. k When they lifted him into one of the autos he turned his wonderful eyes first to one and then to the other and said: "Caro mio." That was the only thanks he needed to utter. He can say'Caro mio" in a tone that almost brings tears to your eyes. War cures sentimentality, but it eannot drive from our hearts the very genuine tenderness we all feel for the courtly, gallant, excitable Don. Men Talk of Poetry at Frt. Next evening he was all right again and he and I drank to his health in a BORDER IS GUARDED American Soldiers Entrench, Ready to Return Fire. GARRISON IS REINFORCED First of Troop Trains Bearing Car - ranza Men and New Equipment Reaches. Douglas, Ariz., and More Are on Way. Continued From First Page.) took a position "west of the Twenty second, while the Eleventh Infantry was assigned to & position directly fac ing Agua Prieta, The Twentieth. In fantry and part of the Seventh was ordered into reserve at the camp. .The entire forces began entrenching and their work provided emplacements for about 30 machine guns if they should be needed. As the Eleventh Infantry swung down the road running through the Ameri can town' and on into Agua Prieta, practically the entire -garrison and PHOTOGRAPH SHOWING HOW MEXICAN LEADER LOOKS SINCE HE WAS RECOGNIZED BY UNITED STATES. r , Z K MMIWllil....lvv..p,.,.l. III! II imill. -ro: . t fit Mi -' "WMtoni'i i -mm nasiiuhwt. aa ' ' Photo Copyright by Underwood. VE.MSTIA0 CARRAXZA. glass of mineral water for the lack of anything more- convivial. : That pleased him and he asked ine if I who so long studied plays knew the plays of his compatriot. Jacinto Benavente. I had to confess that I did not know them and asked if Benavente were one of the big men of the new Spanish drama. "O," he shouted, "col-os-sal! O, enor me! O, like Shakespeare, O. our great est poet of the theater! O, he is my master, my master!" So we had to drink some more min eral water in honor of Jacinto Bena vente and -then I proposed the health of Jose lichegaray, to whom. I said, I could drink with intelligence, because I knew his best plays pretty thorough ly and revered the author. The don blew a kiss and bowed his head at the mention of that name, and. taking the toast for a compliment to him as it was meant said that, per Baccho, if the Americans and the Span iards had only understood each other better 17 years ago they never would have fought each other, and that when I came to Barcelona he would be my guide and that nobody else should be, per Baccho! As the townsmen of one of Arnold Bennett's heroes used to say of him. he s a card the Spaniard. they always say when the Russians do anything clever: "We bet they learned that from the Japanese. Church Now Being Refitted. At present Ivangorod having fallen and the Germans being safely in it. tha only beings for whom the dome retains a practicul value are the birds. They said 'much obliged" and went to live among the faded evergreens. As to the future of the church, the German officer now in command of the fortress said, with a gravity through which not a gleam of irony shone: "As the Russians will not be coming back the church is being refitted for Cath olic services." I All the forts of Ivangorod were blown Tip before the Russians evacuated the buildings. The destruction is terrible to behold and the flight is deplorable to think upon. "A beautiful fortress." said my friend, "a beautiful fortress. It seems as if it could have been held Indefi nitely. Certainly the speedy evacua tion was not ethical." His epitome of what Ivangorod meant in the general scheme of Russian af fairs was worth listening to because he knit up the fate of that fortress with the fate of Novo Georgievsk and Rres-Lltovsk fortresses that consti tute the great Polish trilateral. And what he said was this: "Russia is broken in two." Correspondents' Ma rent's Hard. Around Ivangorod we have done long stretches on foot and it is grilling hard work. On one of these stretches a told night followed a warm dav. and what with weariness and thirst and the abrupt change of temperature, some of us got queer in our inside. It was then that the Spaniard collapsed, not because he lacks spirit, but from 0ieer dog tiredness. Besides his own tongue . he speaks German. French. Italian and a little linglish. and he gen erally saves the Italian for his more emotional moments, which are numer ous. When he is pleased with the sit uation he cries "Bravo!" and when it astounds him he shouts "Per Baccho!" and if he likes you and thinks you are "tres gentil" he addresses you as 'Vara Jnio." Well, the night he gave out we were plunging through the dark in the neighborhood of, Novo Georgievsk and our only light was the glow from the burning fortress. Wo were pretty quiet and the road we had taken was filent and deserted except when we would come upon a detachment of Germans who were .trying-to maneuver WHITMAN TO GIVE OPERA College Conservatory to Present "Merry Wives of Windsor." WHITMAN COLLEGE. Walla Walla, Wash.. Oct. 30. (Special.) Elias Blum, head of the Whitman conservatory of music. Miss Helen Burr, dean of women, and Miss Bernice Richmond returned yesterday from Seattle, where they witnessed the performances of "The Merry Wives of Windsor," given there Tuesday-and Wednesday. The Whitman conservatory will pre sent the opera in the Spring under the direction of Mr. Blum. Miss Richmond is making a metrical translation to be used in the performance here. Mis: Burr wilL have charge of the costum ing of the production. This will be the third opera pre sented by the Whitman conservatory in the last five years, the others being "Martha" and "Fra Diavolo." Geneseo Road Is Improved. GENESEE, Idaho, Oct. SO. (Special.) A large number of men with teams are working on the Pine Grove road near Genesee. This will be one of the best roads in the country when com pleted. The work is being managed by Henrv Whitted. road overseer. population of the Mexican town crowded against the barbed wire bar rier to watch as American picks and shovels went into action, ripping into the hard earth to form protective works on the Douglas border for the lirst .time, in -the history of Mexican warfare on the boundry line. . Trenches Almost Join. The American trenches began at a point a few feet west of the United States customs house and within less than -0 yards of the Carranza trenches at the rear of Agua Prieta. Mexicans working in these trenches dropped their picks and spades and joined the throng of gesticulating Mex ican men, women and children watch' ing the work of the American troops. Positions for Guns Chosen. Besides the infantry regiments. Gen eral Davis has one regiment of cavalry, the Ninth, and four batteries of the Sixth Field Artillery. The dispositions of these troops in the general scheme to protect American territory from vio lation has not been disclosed, but artil lery officers already have positions picked for the guns on high ground east of Douglas, just north of where Villa will have to debouch from the mountains to launch his attack against Agua Prieta. Heavy patrols were out tonight, and the trenches were manned by large de tachments, while the rest of the in fantry slept in camp. American army officers are skeptical of the ability of Villa's officers to con trol the fire of their men. The trenches constructed today afford protection for United States soldiers in case of firing across the border, but high-power bul lets would inevitably carry into Doug las it nred high. With the arrival of a second troop train bringing additional Carranza troops, the Calles garrison at Agua prieta numbered approximately 4500 effective men. Calles asserted also that he had received field guns and ammu nition sufficient to bring his total store of rifle cartridges to 15.000,000 rounds. DIRECT DEALING INSISTED ON Carranza Wants Foreign Govern ments to Recognize Him. WASHINGTON, Oct. 30. General Carranza has made it clear, through the foreign Oftice of his government, that he does not desire to deal with European governments through the United States, and officials of the State Department are in accord with his course. Some of the European powers which have not yet recognized the de facto government have been transmitting representations through American offi cials m Mexico. General Carranza now desires that foreign governments deal directly with him in the future- This policy is expected to hasten the rec ognition of the Carranza government by the powers of Europe. General Carranza's action' is not un derstood here to apply to matters of vital consequence in which the United States, as the nearest neighbor and friend to Mexico, would continue to exercise its good offices. It refers to routine representations now accumu lating with reference to foreign claims and the general status of foreign prop erties in Mexico. The State Department's summary of conditions in Mexico reveals that Amer icans in Sonora are not in as great danger as had been reported, assur ances having come from Villa officials that there would be ample protection for them. 30 "WETS" ARE INDICTED Brewers Accused of Election Fraud in Indiana Liquor Flglit. SULLIVAN, Ind.. Oct. 30. Charging a conspiracy to commit a felony in the "wet" and "dry" election here last May. 30 men. including high officials of brewing companies and a Justice of Peace, were indicted by the Sullivan County grand Jury here todav. Sena- rate indictments were returned against ine -leiTe Haute Brewing Company, of Terre Haute: the F. W. Cook Brewing Company, of Evansville, and the An- neuser-Susch Brewing Association, of St.- Louis, charging corruption in con nection with the election. It is alleged in the indictment that the "wets" raised a fund to ba used for importing voters and buying votes. ine money paid for votes is said to have ranged from SO cents to J9 each. The brewing companies are charged with contributing to the fund. Mrs. M. A. Nisbeth, having regained her health, will, November 1, resume management of Nisbeth Sanatorium, now known as Portland General Hos pital. 16 Lovejoy. Will dispense with surgery; will be conducted as medical and nervous, habit, chronic and rheu matic cases exclusively. D. N. A. Nis beth will be located at 601 to 605 Broadway building for the treatment of hlB downtown patients. Adv. 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