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THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, DECEMBER 10, 1916. KIMRTHRCATCHQTfl IUI1U IIIIILniLilU IU 60 WITH GERMANY Constantine Says Greece Will Unite With Berlin if Allies Sever Diplomatic Ties.' TROOPS MASS AT ATHENS LATEST OFFICIAL WAR REPORTS Russian. PETROGRAD, via London, Dec. 9. Today's Russian official statement reads: "Roumanian front West and south of Putna Valley, where the enemy was dislodged from two heights, we captured 600 prisoners. Including 10 officers and six machine guns, one cannon and two bomb mortars. "Five versts southwest of Sultaenly by repeated attacks the enemy obliged us to abandon the height which we occupied yesterday. "On both banks of the River Tchedenich our advance continues. In Wallachia the Roumanian troops, un der unceasing hostile pressure, con tinue to retire to the eastward. In consequence of this our troops, who are on the left flank of the Rouman ians, also are retiring." With 20,000 Men at Capital, Pre mier Says Concentration Is to Preserve Orders Followers . of Venizelos Arrested. LONDON". Dei 10. King Constan tine has Informed one of the legations at Athens that he would Join with Germany if the entente allies break iff relations with him. according to a dispatch from Piraeus by way of Syra Island. Friday, to Lloyd's Weekly Kews. N'ews dispatches to the Weekly Dis patch from Syra Island, dated Friday, nay that reports from Athens btate that troops are arriving there continu ously, and that 20.000 have gathered in and around the capital. The allied ministers, It la added, asked for an explanation of this con centration, and l'remier Lambros re plied that it was for the preservation of order. The government press in Athens, the reports continue, admits t ,t nin rn nwprs or rormer .fremiti Venizelos have been seized. It is add ed that the Mayor of Athena, who Is 73 years old, along with 188 others, lias been committed to prison on charges of high treason and intent to commit murder. GREECE SENDS PROTEST NOTE frhelllng of Kins's Palace Called Treachery on Part of Allies. WASHINGTON, Dec 5. A statement regarding the clash at Athens was pre sented to the State Department by the Greek Legation today. The statement, handed to the department for its in formation, was a copy of a cablegram from Athens Instructing the Greek Min ister at London to call to the attention of the British Foreign Office the facts. It is signed by Foreign Minister Za locostas. Its text follows: "neuter's Agency has brought the news that "Lord Cecil, answering In the House of Commons Mr. Dalzell's ques tion, said that. In spite of the reiterated express assurances given by the King and his government th,at no troubles would occur, one of the most treacher ous attacks was brought against the detachments of allied contingents which were landed on Admiral Du Fournet's order last Friday.' Orders for Defense Not Given. "Please bring to the knowledge of the Secretary of State for Foreign Af fairs that the royal government with two letters and several oral declara tions had Informed the French Admiral of the impossibility of which they were delivering the war material they were summoned to give away. decided to land a certain number of de tachments,, which, in several columns, proceeded from Piraeus to the capital, which was under military control. The detachments occupied some of the out skirts and repulsed the royal army, which only at this moment decided to defend themselves without any orders. Shelling of Palace Recited. "After the morning skirmishes be tween the allied detachments and our troops a truce was decided upon at the request of the Admiral. . Despite the armistice, though, and after firing had ceased, the allied chips bombarded sev eral spots of the town and 6hot not less than 3S shells, seven of which were dl rected against the royal palace. "There can under such conditions be no question of treachery or of an un provoked attack." Ambassador Sharp, at Paris, notified the State Department today that the allied blockade of Greece began Friday morning at 8 o ciock. Gxeek Coast Blockaded. Ambassador Sharp forwarded a copy of the blockade notice, which says that France, being in agreement with Its allies to declare the blockade, sets forth the conditions under which It will be effective. Beginning December 8 at 8 A. M., the notice says, the blockade will be effective on the coasts of Greece from a point off the Island of Corfu to a point in the Gulf of Salonlkl off the talambria River, as well as to islands actually under the control and occupa tion or the csreek authorities. Ships of third powers in the block aded ports may leave freely up to De cember 10 at 8 A. M. Orders have been given to the commander-in-chief of the naval forces effecting the blockade to proceed by notifying the local author! lies oi me aeciaration. German, Roumanian Pront. BERLIN. Dec 9. (By wireless to Sayville.) Today's official German statement of operation on the Rou manian front says: "Front of Archduke Joseph Between the Kirlibaba and Bistritza valleys the Russians yesterday launched strong attacks. The majority of them, failed with heavy losses. North of Dorna Watra ground that was lost was dearly paid for by the aggressor. Likewise in attacks south of the Trotus Valley, which virtually failed, the Russians ob tained only a minor local success while wasting considerable forces. "Army group of Field Marshal von Mackensen The left wing of the Ninth Army routed Roumanian ' divisions, which tried to make their way toward the southeast from the passes north east of Slnaia. Several thousand men were made prisoner and many cannon captured. The enemy is ia retreat all along the lino before the right wing of this army and before the rapidly advancing Danube army. "Since December 1, as far as ap pears at present from a superficial clearing up of the battlefields around Bucharest, the Roumanians have lost to these two armies more than 70,000 men, 184 cannon and 120 machine guns. The size of these figurea per mits of a plain conclusion being drawn as to the importance of the success obtained by the Teutonic troops and shows to what a degree the Roumanian army is demoralized. The losses in dead and wounded are in proportion to the number of prisoners. The booty, war material and field material taken is Incalculable." German, Macedonian Front. BERLIN. Deo. 9. (By wireless to Sayville.) Following is the official re port of today from the Macedonian front: The hill positions north of Monastlr and northeast of Paralovo were shelled strongly, after which attacks were made in the Cerna Bend, which were repulsed. East of Upper Tahinos Lake (Struma front). Bulgarian vanguards repulsed a British company. DEPORTATIONS STIXLi GO ON Publication of Protest Exhausts America's Means of Diplomacy. WASHINGTON. Dec. 9. With pub Ucation of the American protest to Ger. many on the deportations of Belgians, State Department officials disclosed to day the United States Government has exhausted its means of diplomacy and lias laid the case before American pub lic opinion, from which it will expect to draw guidance for the next steps, if any be taken. Germany's reply, conveyed in conver sations with Charge Grew at Berlin, by Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg, Is that the deportations are regarded as justified on the grounds of social necessity. No actual reply in the form of s note has been received from Germany but no doubt has been left, by the Chancellor that the protest of the United States will not be heeded. Official information shows also that the deportations are continuing. Pub lication of the protest was disclosed at the State Department today to be for the purpose of placing the case before American public opinion. It was also revealed that publication of the docu ment mignt De mierpretea as un friendly, but that this contingency had been taken into consideration before it was given out. The State Department feels that It has gone far beyond the usual diplo matic bounds in its protest to Germany, and that in a strictly conventional sense it had almost no right to discuss the matter at all with Germany, a Belgium's interests In that country are represented by Spain and not bv th United States. Consequently, with all diplomatic procedure now admittedly exhausted, the department has no othe recourse than to give the facts to the puDiic ana leave me case with It. No indication has been given as to when the official German reply will be received or even if one will be sent. but it is understood: that if one doe come, it will be made public if th German government desires it. Th note last night was made public with out consultation with uermany. With the apparent failure of the French. PARIS. Dec. 9 The War Office is sued the following statement on the campaign tonight: In Champagne we made a successful surprise attack on the German salient n the region of Butte aiesnu. we penetrated adversary trenches, de stroyed mine batteries and brought back prisoners. 'On the left bank or the Meuse a somewhat spirited artillery action was maintained in the region of Hill 304. There was an intermittent cannonade on the rest or the rront- 'Array of the East Artillery fight ing was quite active at various points along the front. The bad weather con tinues. "Belgian communication German artillery and mine throwers, ener getically counter shelled by the Bel gian batteries and trench guns, vio lently bombarded the Tser dike and the sector before Dixmude." . . British, Front In France. LONDON, Dec 9 The official re port from British headquarters in France issued tonight reads: "This morning we raided hostile trenches in the neighborhood of Neu vtlle St. Vaast and Souchez, inflicting losses on the enemy and capturing a machine gun. Our trench mortars suc cessfully bombarded the enemy lines north of Ploegsteert and east of Arras. "The hostile artillery was less active today, except in the Tpres ana LA Bassee areas and west of Lesars." Saturday's War Moves. THE Importance of the successes of the Teutonic armies near Bucharest is emphasized by the announcement that since December 1 the Roumanians have lost in prisoners more than 70,000 men, 184 cannon and 120 machine guns, and the losses In dead and wounded are declared to be in proportion to the number of prisoners. The booty taken by the Teutons is reported as "incal culable." The fate of the Roumanian armies is in doubt, but they continue to retreat before the Teutonic allies. The Rus sians again have launched strong at tacks on the Upper Moldavian and Transylvanian frontiers, but the ma jority of them are reported to have failed with heavy losses. Some ground was gained, however, north of Dorna Watra, the Russian troops dislodging hostile forces also from two heights in the Putna Valley and taking prison ers and machine guns. The battle south of Javoornitza in the wooded Carpathians has ceased and the Rus sians have retired to their entrench ments. In consequence of the retreat eastward of the Roumanian troops, Russian troops on their left flank also have been compelled to retire. The entente forces again have, de livered attacks in the bend of the Cerna River on the Macedonian front and in the vicinity of Hill 304 at Verdun. GERMANY EXPLAINS ACTS IN BELGIUM Deportations Said to Be Based on Military Necessity and Not to BeUeneral. w ERRORS BEING RECTIFIED The reply of the German Chancellor to the latest representations of the United States Government regarding the Belgian labor deportations is ex pected to be delivered today or tomor row, and It is stated that it would be couched "in the friendliest terms" and go as far as possible toward meeting the American wishes. Certain conces sions, it is understood, may be made because of the promise to the Dutch Consul at Antwerp after the surrender of that city that Belgians would not be deported. A German warship, described as a light cruiser. Is operating in the At lantic, according to the statement of a British sea captain, who declares his vessel was held up by the German and examined. 'Agitation in London ship ping circles for the convoying of mer chantmen has resulted One thousand persons are reported to have been killed by an. explosion in a Russian ammunition factory. The German military authorities have evolved what Is said to be an improve ment upon the British "tanks" used on the Somme front, and have given them a test in the Roumanian campaign with marked success. In contrast with the slow pace of the machines used by the British, the German tanks run at 25 miles an hour. American protest, as well as those of Holland, Spain and the Vatican, and the deportations unabated, the State Department will await the expression of public opinion before another step Is taken. The next step may be the making public of further information of the extent and machinery of the deportations. Meanwhile the second official state ment from England published today that American relief in Belgium may have to be terminated because of the deportations, is causing alarm. MEN OF MEANS ARE DEPORTED Many Not Dependent, Declares Bel- glum Government. HAVRE, Dec. 9. The Belgian gov ernment has received lists of persons deported from various localities. Their names and information as to whether they were working at the time of the deportation-and whether they were of Independent means Is contained in the lists. Some of these. lists show that among the deported were 43 persons of posi tion and who owned property and who were neither idle nor indigent, such as farmers, small shopkeepers, the hotel proprietor, the station master and his principal assistant, students and ar tists. Another list from Nivelles names 39 persons who were employed and who were making a livelihood, but who were carried off to labor In Germany. "The townspeople at Jemappes," says an eyewitness account received here, "were assembled and examined as to their strength, age and general appear ance very much as though they were cattle Five hundred were picked for transportation. Each was asked to sign a paper saying that he engaged voluntarily for work in Germany. The men were told that 'if you sign it will be easy to place you in Germany. If you refuse, you probably will be sent to work in the trenches.' Few persons signed the paper. One man of 42 who signed was overcome by remorse two days later and hanged himself. Numerous narratives received by this underground railway" describes trains passing through' towns packed with men who were being deported. Some times. It is said, they were singing the 'Brabanconne, the Belgian national hymn, or the "Marseilles," and some times, they were cursing Germany and shaking their fists at German sentinels and shouting insults at them. CRUISER AT LARGE Britisher Reports Being Held Up by German Warship. BERLIN REPORTS CAPTIVES J. ADRIAN EPP1NG WEDS FORMER PORTLAND B.VRITOVK WINS HOOD RIVER BRIDE. Wedding Ceremony Is Performed a Parsonage and Honeymoon Is to Be Spent In Portland. The wedding of J. Adrian Epping-, former. Portland resident, and at one time a member of the Temple Beth Israel choir, and Mrs. Florence Schmeltzer, of Hood River, was quietly solemnized at . the parsonage of the Riverside Congregational Church at Hood River yesterday morning. Rev. M. L Hutton,- pastor of the church, of ficiated. . . . . News of the wedding was received In Portland when the bride and bride groom arrived here on their honey moon. They are at the penson Hotel. Mr. Epping was considered On of Portland's most popular baritone solo ists. He left some time ago to locate in Hood River. Mrs. Schmeltzer, the bride. Is the widow of the late J. M. Schmeltzer, a former Hood River real estate and ab stract man. I - Flemish Naval Forces Take Dutch xand Brazilian Steamers Bound for England With Cargoes of Cotton Into Port. LONDON, Dec. 9. A German warship has succeeded in running the British cordon in the Nortn Sea, according to the report of a ship captain, who says his vessel was held up and examined in the Atlantic. The vessel is not a converted merchantman, the captain said on his arrival here, but is a reg ular light cruiser. The report from the log of this cap tain has become widely known in local shipping circles and has caused wide spread agitation for the convoying of merchantmen. The British Admiralty announced last night a report had been received that a disguised armed German fessel of mercantile type had been sighted in the North Atlantic on December 4. BERLIN, Dec. 9, via London. Dec. 10. An official statement sayar: "Our Flemish naval forces Fridav night stopped the Dutch steamer Cale donia and the Brazilian steamer Rio Pardo, both on the way to England with cotton and brought them into harbor." WHITE SLAVERY CHARGED Long Beach Contractor Arrested al Oregon City. OREGON CITYOr.. Dec. 9. fSDe- clal.) J. A. Moates, who says he is a contractor of Long Beach. Cal was ar rested here tonight on a charge of white slavery. une woman Is now believed to be in Portland. Moates was arrested while in conver sation with Mrs. Edna Logan, a dress maker of Portland, who was also de tained by Chief of Police Blanchard. Moates says he has been working for Mrs. S. B. Brown, 1359 East Eighteenth street. Portland, who is erecting two houses. Only Unemployed Taken From Fam ilies, Chancellor Says Admis sion Made That Pledge to Dutch Was. Broken. BERLIN, Dec 8, via London, Dec. 8. The latest representations from the United States regarding the Belgian la. bor problem were presented by Joseph C. Grew, secretary of the American Em bassy, in an interview with Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg on Tuesday and the German reply is expected to be de livered tomorrow or Monday. Like the Chancellor s reply to Secre tary Grew's first representations, it will be couched in the friendliest terms, going, it Is understood, as far as pos- j slble toward meeting American wishes and recognizing the interest the United States naturally takes in this question as the power chiefly concerned in the work of Belgian relief. As show ing the spirit in which Germany met the first American representations, the Associated Press correspondent today was inrormed that it was only neces sary to recapitulate the Chancellor's answers to various points recommended Dy secretary Grew at the first inter view as details in methods of opera tion under the deportation order open to criticism or objection. Employed Not Molested. The first was that the measure in many respects was being applied In discriminately, to the employed as well as to the unemployed. The Chancel lor declared that this was contrary to the wishes or intention of the govern ment; that only the really unemployed would be taken: that the employed would be left unmolested and that whatever errors have occurred the suf ferers from them would be returned to Belgium. Recommendations to this end. it was declared, were acted upon and the de ported persons Involved have already been returned or were returning to their homes in Bajgium. It was further suggested that the measure should not be applied to the heads of families, but It was pointed out that It was impossible to make a general rule to this effect, as fathers of families were often the ones through whom destitution. In the absence of steady work or steady wages, was most seriously felt, but the Chancellor prom ised a modification of the order in cases of special hardship. The third point was that the em ployes of the Belgian Relief Commis sion should not be deported. This, of course, was granted, as they were not regarded as unemployed. Only One Mayor Arrested. A further objection was lodged against the arrest of Belgian officials for refusing to deliver lists of unem ployed. Discontinuation of this was granted, but it is now pointed out that complaints on that score were largely exaggerated, only one Belgian Mayor having been arrested for this reason while he already had been set at lib erty. The request for permission for neu tral representatives to visit deported workmen and for postal facilities 'for deported men to correspond with their families was granted. In official quarters Germany's posi tion Is reflected to the correspondent of the Associated Press as follows: "Over and over again it has reiter ated here that the United States and thi neutral world in general seem to have a distorted picture oi the Belgian deportation question, basing their views on information from enemy sources, generalizing from blunders which are admitted to have occurred, and Ignoring the spirit in which, as the Chancellor's reply contends, the German government is determined to apply the measure. To a certain ex tent, at least. It is represented, the reasons leading the government to put the measure into tffect have been mis understood." Military Reasons Prevail. Reference also is made to the mili tary, aspects of the question. Not the least of these considerations, it is said. Is the ever-present possibility of an attempt at the landing of a mili tary force in Belgium, in which case a aangerous menace to the German troops would be presented by the pres ence in the field of operations and the immediate rear of the German de fenses, of a large assemblage of able bodied adults, who already have shown a disposition to make trouble. As Is usually the case In war, military rea sons D'-evailed. As to the allegation that deported workmen would be forced to labor on munitions work, it is asserted in offi clal quarters that there Is not the slightest foundation therefor. As a matter of fact, Germany is now obtain ing all the workmen needed for thfs purpose. The protest based on the promise to the Dutch Consul at Antwerp Just after the surrender of the city that Belgians would not be deported is being serious ly considered. 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