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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, MARCH 26, 1916. 7 GERMAN RAIDER IS 501 IH SEA DUEL British Cruiser Also Lost Successful Effort to Maintain Blockade. in BOTH SIDES LOSE MEN Tondon Says Enemy Vessel new Norwegian Colors Throughout Engagement; 120 Germans 1 Rescued, Made Prisoners. LONDON, March 23 The German raider Greif. attempting to run the British blockade ot the North Sea, was eunk in battle by the British cruiser Alcantara, on February 29. The Alcan tara also was sunk. Five German officers and 115 men out of a crew of 300 were rescued and taken prisoners by the British. The Alcantara lost five officers and 6S men. The Greif was sunk by gunfire and the Alcantara by a torpedo, according to the version of the British Admiralty. The German Admiralty says the Greif was torpedoed, and then blew herself up. The German official account men tions the fact that the German prison ers have been cut off from communica tion with the outside world and says that "measures against this have been taken." Cirelf Fail In Rase to Escape. When the Greif, which had tried to scape to the northward the day the Jloewe returned to Germany, found her way blocked by British warships, she turned eastward, proceeding toward home in a leisurely manner so as not to attract too much attention, when she was hailed by the Alcantara. The two ships lay almost side by Side, while the captain of the British tteamer inquired by megaphone for particulars of the strange vessel, which had the Norwegian colors painted on her sides, but which flew no flag. The Inquiries from the Alcantara were an swered in perfect Norwegian, but the actions of the raider aroused the sus picions of the British auxiliary, fc-he was lowering a boat to send a search ing party aboard when the Germans opened fire. The action is described as one of the hottest of the war, recalling duels be tween evenly-matched frigates in the days before the time of Ironclads. Ac cording to the British account, the German raider was put out of action by a few broadsides and sunk in 12 min utes. German Version Issued. The official report of the battle is sued today by the German Admiralty and received here by way of Amster dam, is as follows: "The Admiralty staff states, accord ing to news from various places, which has been confirmed, that an engage ment occurred on February 29 in the northern part of the North Sea be tween the German auxiliary cruiser Greif and three British cruisers and one destroyer. In the course of the hattle the Greif was struck by a tor pedo shot by' a great British cruiser of some 15,000 tons, and finally blew herself up. "About 150 men of the crew of the Greif, whose names are not yet known, now are prisoners of war to the British. They are cut off from all communica tion with the outer world by the Brit ish, who observe the strictest secrecy regarding events. Measures against this have been taken." The British official version issued to day is as follows: "An engagement occurred February 29 in the North Sea between the Ger man armed raider Greif, disguised as a Norwegian merchant vessel, and the British armed cruiser Alcantara, Cap tain T. E. Wardle. It resulted in the loss of both vessels, the German raider being sunk by gunfire and the Alcan tara apparently by a torpedo. Norwegian Colors Flonn. "Five German officers and 115 men were picked up and taken prisoners Out of the total complement believed to have been over 300. The British losses amounted to five' officers and 69 men. "It should be noted that during the whole engagement the enemy fired over the Norwegian colors painted on the Side of the ship. "This news is now published, as it is made clear by the receipt of a Ger man wireless message that the enemy has learned that the Greif, a similar ship to the Moewe, had been destroyed hefore she succeeded in passing our line of patrols." COLLEGE PLANS ARE MADE Commencement AVcek at Corvallis to Begin June 2. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, Corvallis, March 25. (Special.) The programme of events for commence ment week at the Oregon Agricultural College has been approved by the fac ulty committee in charge and includes the pagent of flowers and Russian fete given by the women under the direc tion of the department of physical edu cation, as follows: The senior play, June 2; alumni day, including the inspection of college buildings and reception to the gradu ates, June 3; baccalaureate exercises, June 4; senior class day exercises and final parade of the cadet regiments and recital by students in music, June 5, and the academic procession and grad uation ceremonies of the class of 1916, June 6. IRISH PAPERS SUSPENDED Armed Resistance Encountered, but Troops Are Called Out. DUBLIN, March 25. The military nnd police yesterday visited publishing offices and seized copies of five Irish publications and in some cases dis mantled the printing machinery. This action was taken on the ground of dis loyalty. Armed citizens challenged the au thorities when they entered the hall where the Workers' Republic is pub lished. The authorities immediately withdrew. Later members of the "citi zens army," formed in connection with the recent dock strike, in uniform and armed with rifles and bayonets, occu pied the hall and remained there throughout the night. Exorbitant Water Hates Charged. SALEM. Or.. March 23. (Special.) Charging that tiie meter rates for water are excessive, C M. Fox, F. D. Thielson and S. E. Wolfe, residents of Salem Heights, today filed complaint with the Public Service Commission against the Salem Water, Light & Power Company. The complainants declare that the meter rates for ir rigation are more than the charges for those who pay a flat rate. The Pub lic Service Commission will investi gate the situation on Salem Heights. OFFICIAL WAR REPORTS German. BERLIN, via London, March 23. The text of today's official statement is: "Western theater There have been no actual changes in the situation since yesterday. In the Meuse district artil lery duels were especially lively, and in the course of these engagements Verdun was set on fire. "Eastern theater West of Jacob stadt, the Russians again opened an attack after having brought forward fresh Siberian troops and after strong artillery preparations had been made. The attack broke down with heavy losses to the Russians. "Minor enemy advances southwest of Jacobstadt and southwest of Dvinsk were easily repulsed. All the enemy's efforts, even those repeated during the night against our front north of Vidzy were completely unsuccessful. "Further to the south, in the region of the Narocz Lakes, the enemy yes terday limited his activity to artillery bombardments. Balkan theater During a renewed aeroplane attack, one enemy machine was brought down, after an aerial bat tle between the enemy lines and our positions. It was there destroyed by artillery." French. PARIS. March 25. The text of to day's official statement follows: "In the Argonne a surprise attack against the trenches of the enemy at Courtes Chaussees resulted in our tak ing some prisoners and inflicting losses on the enemy. "The night passed quietly both west and east of the Meuse. "In the Woevre there has been an artillery duel near Moulainville. "There have been no important de velopments elsewhere on the front." Saturday's War Moves THE cross-channel steamer Sussex, damaged by an exterior explosion on Friday afternoon, while 25 Ameri cans were on board, was torpedoed, ac cording to a report from the American consul at Dieppe, received by the State Department in Washington, through Ambassador Sharp, at Paris. The re WICKED "ZEP" STUDIED EXPERT FINDS SPEED OK WAR CRAFT HAS BEEX INCREASED. Invader Brought Down Carried 23 Men and Six Machine Guns. Five Motora 'Were Used. LONDON, March 25. The Times pub lishes today a lengthy account by the French aviation expert, Georges Prade, of the results of his study of the re mains of a Zeppelin brought down Feb ruary 21 at Revigny. M. Prade be lieves the airship was one of the latest type, and compares its details with those of the Z-8, which was brought down in France in August, 1914. The writer says: "In the presence of the shapeless heap of debris it is not possible to reconstruct the dimensions of the air ship which bore the number LZ-77, but an examination of the main beams war rants the conclusion that she measured 30,000 cubic metres. The metal em ployed is somewhat different from that of earlier Zeppelins, being of aluminum toughened by a slight alloy of copper and zinc. "It was about 160 metres in length. The shape has changed somewhat. All previous Zeppelins were symmetrical, both ends being alike. This was much bulkier forward and tapered off toward the stern. Thle shape gave, with equal capacity, less resistance when advanc ing and therefore greater speed with the same power. "She had five motors and five pro pellers, a crew of about 23 and six ma chine guns, two in each gondola, and two on the platform above the en velope. She had no other guns." FOUR AMERICANS LOST CONST: I-Alt REPORTS TELL OF SINK ING OF BRITISH HORSE SHIP. Sixty More Reported Saved, 18 Not Ac counted for ana 33 Are Taken to Unnamed Port. WASHINGTON, March 25 Consular reports indicate that four Americans, members of the crew of the Dominion liner Englishman, were lost when the vessel was torpedoed near the British Coast. The Englishman was a horse ship, bound to Portland, Me., for a cargo of mounts. The missing Americans, all members of the crew, are Peter McDonald, a horse foreman, of Boston: George Mc Donald, a trimmer, of Lawrence, Mass.; P. Buckley and M. A. Burke, addresses unknown. , The dispatches to the State Depart ment were from American Consul Armstrong at Bristol and said the Englishman was torpedoed at an un known place and time and that 33 sur vivors had been taken into an unnamed British port. The American' citizens known to have been aboard were not among the survivors. The Consul also reported that 60 more persons who were aboard the ship were believed by the British authorities to have been saved, although no definite information on that point was avail able. If 60 more persons were saved, 18 persons remain unaccounted for, ac cording to the dispatch. 8 TO SUPPORT BILL MINORITY' LEADER, HOWEVER, OP POSES LITERACY TEST. Protection to Country Desired Against Greatest - Immigration Flood World Has Ever Seen. WASHINGTON, March 25. Debate on the literacy test section of the Burnett immigration bill was com pleted by the House in committee of the whole late today and a vote will be taken Monday to decide whether the provision which has been responsible for Presidential vetoes of three pre vious immigration bills shall be re tained In the measure. Republican Leader Mann spoke to day against the literacy test, declaring that ability to read and write were mere incidents of opportunity, but an nouncing that although he had voted against three immigration bills be cause of that feature he would sup port the Burnett bill regardless of whether the test were eliminated. He declared "every man of common sense" probably would seek to escape from Europe at the close of the war and he was unwilling "to leave the country port gives from 60 to 80 persons as wounded or killed by the explosion. Of the Americans on the steamer, only two had been reported up to a late hour Saturday to the American embassy in London as among the saved. Unofficially, however, several others have been accounted for as res cued. At least two Americans on board are known to have been injured and one of the survivors said that Miss Elizabeth Baldwin, an American, lost her life, while another American passenger is reported missing. Cable dispatches say that the loss of life on the Sussex may reach a to tal of 40. A definite statement that the Sus sex was torpedoed comes in a Paris dispatch, quoting Samuel F. Bemis. of Medford. Mass., as declaring that he saw plainly and unmistakably the wake of the torpedo as it came toward and struck the steamer. The British naval guard in the North Sea headed off, on February 29, a German raider which was trying to run the blockade, it is officially announced in London. In the resulting engagement both the raider and the auxiliary cruiser Grief and the British ship Alcantara were sunk, the fight being described as a hot one, recalling the naval duels of the days before the ironclads. The German, and British statements are at variance regarding the engage ment. Only one British vessel is men tioned in the London Admiralty ac count, while Berlin declares that three British cruisers and a destroyer were in the action. The Grief was struck by a torpedo from a 15,D00-ton cruiser and finally blew herself up, the Ger man Admiralty asserted. London says a torpedo from the Grief sent the Alcantara to the bottom. The British captured some 120 Germans from the raider. There has been no renewal of the German attacks on Verdun fortress, but the artillery has been notably active, Paris reports. According to the German War Office, Verdun was set on fire by German shells during the artillery exchanges. On the Russian front the German lines have been subjected to further heavy attacks, both to the northwest and to the south of Dvinsk. Berlin, however, declares that all the Russian attempts to advance were complete failures. unprotected against the probability of the greatest flood of immigration the world has ever seen." By a vote of 69 to 78. the House re jected a committee amendment deny ing admission to those legally charged with having committed a felony. A committee proposal for doubling the head tax on aliens to $8 was also voted down. P0MER0Y CLASS IS RECORD Seven Boys and O Girls to Be Grad uated This Year. POME ROT, Wash., March 25. (Spe cial.) The 1916 class of the Pomeroy High School, composed of 20 girls and seven boys, will be the largest ever graduated from the school. Miss Margaret Darby is president. Miss Fannie Cardwell has been chosen to give the class history. The class roll follows: Hazel Young, Mary McGreevy, Maudie Hender, Clara Bartels, Alberta Davis, Mazie Chenea, Leone Robertson, Eliza beth Felder, Goldie Gimlin, Gean Dinklns, Ella Davis, Alta Morris, Anna Mae McGrath. Fannie Cardwell, Mar garet Darby. Mary Rommel, Lois Long, Marie Hagan. Marie Chard, Lenore Kuykendall. Orlln Johnson, Edward Hiller, Lorraine Kuykendall, John Elsensohn, Raymond Dodge, Verle Whittaker and Silas Matthies. ANNA HELD IS AT PEOPLES AVonderful Gowns Worn by Actress Jn Feature Film Today. Anna Held, vivacious actress, world famous as a comedienne, will be seen at the Peoples Theater today in one of her most successful farce comedies. It is "Madame La Presidente," written by Maurice Hennequin and Pierre Veber. The film will be here for four days. It is an elaborate photo comedy which gives Miss Held an opportunity to dis play her histrionic ability, mannerisms and fetching clothes. The play is said to be a most fascinating one and on the legitimate stage it was one of the profitable and successful ones for Miss Held. The Peoples bill will also include Chapter 12 of "The Goddess," in which Anita Stewart and Earle Williams are featured. The bill is a Paramount programme. PENDLETON OFFERS QUEEN Commercial Association Plans to En ter Rose Carnival Campaign. PENDLETON. Or.. March 25. fSoe- cial.) The Pendleton Commercial Asso ciation is at the head of a campaign to elect a Pendleton girl for the place of queen of the Portland Rose Carnival and Columbia River Highway. The queen and maids are to be chosen, according to W. R. Crow, of the Portland show, from the girls In the entire state receiving the largest num ber of votes, the young woman getting the greatest number to be declared queen. Secretary Charles Cranston, of the Commercial Association, will act as campaign manager, and votes will cost ?1 per thousand. The plan is to have each merchant offer .votes with purchases. REQUISITION IS ISSUED Return to Salem of Burglar Suspect, Held In Washington, Asked. SALEM, Or., March 23. (Special.) Governor Withycombe today issued a requisition upon the Washington au thorities for the extradition of Charles Adams, who is wanted in Sa lem on a charge of burglary. Adams is implicated in the theft of carpen ter's tools from Ben Kumler through the confession of Dewey McElrath, a youth arrested here recently in con nection with the theft. Adams had just completed a 90-day sentence at Port Orchard. Wash. Chief of Police Welsh will leave to morrow to bring Adams back. Mrs. Gillespie Is Dead. Mrs. William Gillespie died at Emanuel Hospital last night after a short illness. She gave birth to a baby boy at the hospital two days ago. Mrs. Gillespie was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dayton, pioneer resi dents of Portland, who are now living at Courtney Station, on the Oregon City electric line. Mrs. Gillespie is also survived by a sister, Frances Dayton. Funeral arrangements had not been made last night. At the hospital it was reported the baby was in good health and would live. Portland models pose for Spring Style Exhibit. See Section Five. GERMANS THINK FOE FACES RUIN FIRST Financial Contest Looms Big in Calculations as to Out come of Great War. GOLD BEING CONSERVED Teuton View Is That Money Spent at Home Is Not Lost, and Enor mous Outlay of British Abroad Pointed Out. , BY CAROLYN WILSON. (War correspondent of the Chicago Tribune, returned irom Europe, copy right, 1916, by the Tribune. Published by arrangement.) The final answer to all this prepared ness and victory may come in the finan cial situation. Raw material the Ger mans have, food they can arrange for, men they will be able to supply, morale and courage will stand the severest test, but how about the money? As the situation now stands Ger many claims she has covered her paper issue by 38.2 per cent gold, which is more than the required third. I don't think many believe this. They consider the figures given out by the govern ment renresent after the fashion of the English recruiting figures all that has been turned in for use, and do not take Into account a single gold piece paid out in exchange for imports. At the beginning of the war the Reichsbank had 1,251,000,000 marks in gold and now it has 2,455,800,000 marks. Bigger Exports Are Remedy. "In reality," Lippmann. in a speech before the Abgeordnetenhaus, said, "the people have brought a great deal more gold to the bank than this com parison would indicate, as the bank has had to make a great many pur chases in foreign countries. Four and a half milliard marks gold have been minted, but much of this has gone out of the country and also into indus tries. "The Reichsbank has given out notes to the value of three milliards, while the French gave six and the Russians seven and a third. A sign of the con fidence shown in the Reichsbank is the fact that a great deal of foreign secu rities has been intrusted to us. In peace times it was around 1,200,000.000, while during the war it Is 1.800,000,000. "The depreciation of the mark is not expressive of the real circumstances. It lies solely in the fact that we must import from neutral countries a great deal more than we can export. Our value can be raised by improving our export trade. So everything must be made easier for the exporters.' That is the optimistic side of It. But look at the debts that will remain after the war. To date the interest and part amortization of the war loans amount ing to $10,000,000,000, exclusive of the peace loan of $1,250,000,000. is $600,000, 000 yearly. Now think if more war loans come into existence, as of course they must, remember also all the wid ows' and children's pensions that must be paid out, all the cripples and all the rebuilding that, must go forward helped on by the state. Of course during the last six months the paying of gold into neutral lands has largely stopped. Naturally it is still often impossible to get the particular coveted purchase without gold, but for the main the outside nations need Ger many's iron, coal, dyes or textile goods nearly as badly as Germany needs their products. . The trading has even gone to such a pitch that Germany is supplying Italy with coal in return for wheat and corn Switzerland being the profiting go between. This is largely the reason for the allies' dissatisfaction with Italy at the present time. But at the present price of English governed coal It is small wonder that Italy does what seems easier. The German government is trying to restrict all individual buying in neu tral countries and to this end is shut ting down on the consumption of "luxus" articles. Whatever the small dealer buys In Holland or Denmark must be paid for in gold, so the govern ment wishes to do all the trading and do it all on the exchange basis. The Germans are restricting oysters and cheese from Holland, various kinds of liquors from the Scandinavian coun tries, silks which wereibeing sold from France through Holland, etc. Disastrous Spending? Count. Many of the Germans think that they can hold out financially even better than the English, who certainly, by all Americans, are credited with the best bank balance and thus the best hand in the game. The German contention is, however, that England is not only spending in actual cash a great deal more than Germany on the war,: but, since this can only be counted in rela tion to income, that it is spending more disastrously than Germany. At the same time Helffrich gave Ger many's daily expenses as $16,000,000 McKenna confessed to more than $25, 000.000 for England. This is not the point, since war-expenses do not always imply a total loss of national property. that snappy dresser finds, here only, in portland accessories that reflect the latest mode. new desirable blocks in the following leading makes of hats: knox hats $5 stetson hats $4, $5 to $15 monroe hats $3 cloth hats $2.50 to $5 different neckwear just 5 days from fifth avenue SO cents to $5 the new fancy vests for the grill dansants $5, $6 and $10 imported gloves with embroidered backs $2 and $2.50 distinctive shirts in the new patterns both silk and madras $l.SO to $10 , a most complete assortment of all those other little things of the better kind that help make you feel well dressed HrHo Sichel men's furnisher and Hatter 331 Washington st. portland, Oregon near broadway "Spring Style Exhibit" of Hats ihn jiiiilmiiiluiiliUilullliluiuulllUHiilliliulliiiii llillllliilllilllilm II li- i !:, : I ; !. I i . III! lii U II I ! !! Spring Style Exhibit" Hart Schaf f ner & Marx Suits and Overcoats Have you gone in on this general celebration of the right clothes idea? Think about it today if you haven't. Varsity Fifty-Five The leader for "Fashion Exhibit Week." Do you want to come in on this new "dress-up" idea and come out quickly perfectly satisfied? Then walk into this store tomorrow and see how easily we can fit you in one of these many variations in Varsity Fifty Five, made by Hart Schaffner & Marx. These styles give you everything beautiful materials, cor rect design, extreme value, a perfect fit everything. Priced moderately $18 to $40. Sam'l Rosenblatt & Co. The Men's Store for Quality and Service S. E. Corner Fifth and Alder although furnishing an indication of the fiscal burden. A percentage of the war expenses benefits part of the people and thus the community. The chief thing Is the net expenditure how much has been used up never to be seen again, and how much paid abroad. If, for instance, England places an order for $500,000 worth of shells at an American muni tions plant it means a loss of $500,000 to the English national wealth aa soon as the shells have been used up. If Krupp gets a similar order from the Minister of War, only a part of it can be considered as a loss to the Ger man national wealth, since the whole profits of Intermediaries and wages remain in the country. Later on a large proportion of the profits is re covered again by means of taxation for the benefit at the community. The difference Between England and Germany with almost the same nation al wealth before the war. is that Ger many gets most of its requirements at home, while England has to buy them constantly and increasingly abroad and at steadily advancing prices. The pro portion of imports to exports in Eng land's foreign trade has deteriorated by nearly $2,000,000,000 and will grow worse. Germany, on the other hand, is spend ing little money outside and is making for itself an independent place in the matter of various imports. The Ger-' mans assert that Jute, manganese and saltpeter amounting to about $60,000, 000 a year in imports are done away with forever by the new inventions of Germany, while other substitutes will reduce import costs by $100,000,000. At present England's war expendi ture at $700,000,000 a month certainly exceeds German's by about $250,000, 000, but the difference is much more, the Germans say, according to the above example. It is not wrong to say, they believe, that each million dollars' worth ofVac tual war expenditure In Germany Is equal to two millions in England. As Lildlllaihli, Ji'uHtM OF before the. war both nations were equally rich according to Helffrich, Germany's national wealth was greater by 20 per cent than England's Eng land's national wealth should decrease twice as rapidly. That, then, is the argument for be lieving that England will be willing to call off on account of the financial side of the question fully as soon as Ger many, if not sooner. Fact 2SJo. 14 The narrow fore frameoflhe Packard Twin Six . 'permits of shorter turning, an important ad vantage in thronging traffic. FRANK C.RIGGS COMPANY Cornell Road. 23d and 'Washington Sts. i($2900.-$3300 ill F-O.B. PORTLAND AM' "Spring Style Exhibit" of Furnishings I h i: ! m : a i BEGIN ON SALTS AT FIRST SIGN OF We Eat Too Much Meat, Which Clogs Kidneys, Then the Back Hurts. Says Glass of Salts Flushes Kidneys and Ends Bladder Irritation. Uric acid in meat excites the kidneys, they become overworked; get sluggish, ache, and feel like lumps of lead. The urine becomes cloudy; the bladder is irritated, and you may be obliged to seek relief two or three times during the night. When the kidneys clog you must help them flush off the body's urinous waste or you'll be a real sick person shortly. At first you feel a dull misery in the kidney region, you suffer from backache, sick headache, dizzi ness, stomach seta sour, tongue coated and you feel rheumatic twinges when the weather is bad. Eat less meat, drink lots of water; also get from any pharmacist four ounces of Jad Salts; take a tablespoon ful in a glass of water before break fast for a few days and your kidneys will then act fine. This famous salts is made from the acid of grapes and lemon Juice, combined with lithia, and has been used for generations to clean clogged kidneys and stimulate them to normal activity, also to neutralize the acids in urine, so it no longer is a source of irritation, thus ending blad der weakness. Jad Salts Is inexpensive, cannot in jure; makes a delightful effervescent lithia-water drink which everyone should take now and then to keep the kidneys clean and active. Druggists here say they sell lots of Jad Salts to folks who believe in overcoming kid ney trouble while it is only trouble. Adv. WOMEN SUFFERERS NEED SWAMP-R00T Thousands upon thousands of women have kidney and bladder trouble and never suspect it. Women's complaints often prove to be nothing else but kidney trouble, or the result of kidney or bladder disease. If the kidneys are not in a healthy condition, they may cause the other or gans to become diseased. You may suffer a great deal with pain in the back, headache, loss of am bition, nervousness and may be de spondent and irritable. Don't delay starting treatment. Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, a physician's prescription-, obtained at any drug store, restores health to the kidneys and is just the remedy needed to over come such conditions. Get a fifty-cent or one-dollar bottle immediately from any drug store. However, if you wish first to test this Kreat preparation, send ten cents to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y.. for a sample bottle. When writing be sure and mention The Portland Sunday; Ore- KDNEY PAN