The Sunday Oregonian., March 04, 1917, Section One, Page 5, Image 5

THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, 3IARCII 4, 1917.
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BERLIN ANNOUNCES
REPRISAL DECISION
Prussian War Minister Tells of
Steps to Be Taken
Against Captives.
FRENCH SAID TO BE WORST
Von Stein Declares Prisoners Are
Kept Under Fire ot German
Guns and Driven t From
Shelter by Officers.
BERLIN. March 3. (By wireless to
Bayville.) Lieutenant-General von
Eteln, the Prussian Minister of War,
announced In the Reichstag today that
reprisals had been taken a&alnst what
the Minister termed the "mistreatment
of Germans taken prisoner by the en
tente allies."
The Overseas News Agency, the of
ficial German news bureau. In reporting
today's deliberations of the Reichstag,
pays that General von Stein made a
eensational speech regarding the treat
ment of Germans taken prisoners by
the entente allies, and that the War
Minister was frequently interrupted by
the Deputies when he told of the con
dition of prisoners In France, where,
he said, the situation was the worst.
Conditions In France Reviewed. (
"Unfortunately things there (France)
io not grow better, but worse," Gen
eral von Stein Is quoted as . saying.
"The enemy endeavors to oppress our
unfortunate comrades, both body and
bouI. The liberties which we granted
to prisoners in our camps In connec
tion with art and science are unknown
In France. We, therefore, abolished
these liberties in our prisoner camps.
"The time of warning had been fixed
at four weeks, and after that counter
measures were to be taken. During
that time we treated our prisoners de
cently, while our prisoners In the hands
of the enemy had to suffer more weeks
of torture. I asked that that time be
made shorter, and this today was
granted. Counter measures will be
taken until we have received news
from the enemy governments that hos
tile measures have been abolished. If
these unfortunate people seek cover
against our fire they are forced from
the shelter by French officers.
Conditions in England Better.
"In England things are different.
Although the English usually deny all
charges of atrocities. It must be
acknowledged that In many cases they
have made redress, and that In Eng
land the treatment of prisoners gen
erally Is better. However, this does
not exclude the employment by the
English also of many prisoners close
behind the front. Therefore, adequate
measures are being taken In reprisal
"VTe know further that German pris
oners In French ports are made to work
to excess under unfavorable conditions
by the British. For this reason also
English prisoners have been put In a
similar situation at certain places on
the front.
"Immediately after the declaration of
submarine war we brought It to the
knowledge of the British government
that special treatment of . our brave
submarine crews would be answered
with similar measures."
ALUMNI STUDENTS OF BROOKLYN SCHOOL WHO WILL PRESENT
"LOOKING FOR MARY JANE."
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Com z a?y s-3J7
"Looking for Mary Jane" will be presented by the Alumni Club of Brook
lyn School next Friday and Saturday evening at the school. This will be the
third of the plays to be given by the organization, which Is composed wholly
of boys and girls who have been graduated from Brooklyn, and gives prom
ise of being ihelr best. For three years they have given their annual plays,
and now the organization has become well trained.
"Looking for Mary Jane" Is a bright comedy drama with lots of plot and
clever characters. It Is being directed by Ralph Wood. In the cast are:
Ralph Wood, Herbert Poppy, Sam Benson, Alice DeMent, Guy Lavis, Debora
Jefferson, Helen Plppy, Clarence Wood, Alexander Robertson, Margaret
Mollner, Ralph Kaurtel, .Margaret Mol lner and Ralph NaurteL
I STEAMER IS SUNK
Greek Vessel on Way to Amer
ica for Grain U-Boat Victim.
GOAL NOT MADE BY KAISER
Submarines Kail ly More Than
Per Cent to Make Good German
Threat to Sink One Million
Tons During February.
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MILE OF POLES IS DOWN
Riddle Telephone Service Crippled
by Recent Storm.
RIDDLE. Or.. March 3. (Special.)
During the recent heavy snow storm
almost every pole on the Riddle tele
phone exchange was broken and fell to
the ground.
For several days every line In the
city has been out of commission. The
owner, Merton Earl, had just recently
made improvements, and will experi
ence quite a loss.
The cause of the damage Is believed
to be In the light material used in
construction of the line. There is about
one mile of poles down.
$35,000 VOTED FOR SCHOOL
Corvallis Will Advertise for Sale of
Bond Issue at Once.
VICTIM OF" GERMAN SUBMA
RINE: KEPORTBD YES
TERDAY. Tonnage.
Proconnlssos (Greek) 2,769
Known tonnage previously
sunk 474,995
Known tonnage eunk since
February 1 477,764
Summa-7' Since February 1.
American 2
Other neutrals 67
British 113
Other belligerents 23
Unidentified 2
Total 197
Pulsleux-au-Mont and north of Gom
mecourt, which would bring it almost
on the Essarts-Bucquoy-Bapaume line,
where It has been reported the Ger
mans were expected to make a stand.
Berlin says there have been violent In
fantry encounters on both banks of the
Ancre and it la apparent Crown Prince
Rupprecht is offering greater re
sistance to the British attempts to advance.
Near Sallly-Salllisel. several miles
south of the British advance, and north
east of Gueudecourt, the Germans at
tacked the British lines. Repulsed at
Gueudecourt, the Germans, by a bomb
ing attack, gained some ground east of
Sallly-Salllisel. The lost ground Is re
ported to have been regained entirely
by the British. On the remainder of
the western front raids and artillery
engagements have occurred.
BRITISH BEAT BACK
ENEMY ON ANCRE
Line Is Advanced Quarter Mile
on 5-Mile Front in Face
of Stubborn Foe.
BERLIN EXPLAINS MOVES
Hamadan, in Persia, 240 miles north
east of Bagdad, the goal of the present
advance In Mesopotamia, has been cap
tured by the Russians, according to a
Teheran dispatch. The occupation of
Hamadan may presage another at
tempt by the Russians to advance Into
Mesopotamia from the east to aid the
British forces.
In a raid on Russian lines west of
Lutsk, Volhynla, which were penetrated
nearly a mile. Berlin says the Germans
destroyed the Russian works and took
122 prisoners. There has been no great
activity elsewhere on the eastern front
and heavy snows are reported in Rou
mania.
Raids and artillery actions are re
ported from the Macedonian and Aus
tro-Italian fronts.
Including five
nage not given.
vessels, ton-
CORVALLIS, Or.. March 3. (Special.)
At a school election held here on
Thursday bonds were authorized by the
voters with which to erect a new unit
of the high school. The sum authorized
Is $35,000, and the School Board has
adopted plans for the unit to be built.
It will be 62x140 feet, and will form
part of the present high school bulld-
j "yjns, wiiicri is io ue remoueiea during
me summer.
According to the plans of the School
Board the bonds will be advertised at
once, and as soon as the bonds are sold
bids will be called for. It is the belief
of E. J. Newton, chairman of the Board,
that work on the new building will
begin by April 15,
LONDON, March 3. Reuter's Tele
grain Company says the Greek steam
ship Proconnlssos, of 2769 tons gross,
which had been requisitioned by the
Greek Royalist government to go to
America for 5000 tons of grain for the
assistance of the Royalist population
of Old Greece, has been torpedoed and
sunk by a German submarine.
According to the latest maritime
records, the Proconnlssos was trans
ferred from Greek registry to the
French flag and renamed Verdun. No
recent movements of the vessel have
been published and she was last re
ported at Bordeaux, France, in Novem
ber, 1916. The ship was 319 feet long
and was built at Sunderland in 1902.
LONDON, March 3. Germany failed
by slightly more than a SO per cent
margin to make good her threat to
sink 1,000.000 tons of merchant ship
ping during the first month of unre
stricted submarine warfare, according
to figures in the possession of th As
sociated Press, the absolute reliability
of which is vouched for here. Her sub
marines, the figures show, only suc
ceeded in sending to the bottom during
the month of February, in round num
bers, 490,000 tons.
This figure only exceeds by 140.000
tons, it is declared, what the British
authorities expected would be sunk
during that month if ordinary subma
rine warfare had continued. It com
pares with. 346,656 tons sunk during
December and 322,067 tons during Jan
uary.
Except for the announcement In
London that the Greek steamer Pro
connlssos, of 2769 tons, has been eunk
by a submarine, no reports of losses
from German submarine activities have
been Issued from the entente capitals.
The French Admiralty announces
that It will not issue a daily list of
suDmarine losses, but win give out a
weekly summary. Figures vouthed for
in London show that German subma
rines destroyed 490.000 tons of mer
chant shipping in February. This figure
is less than half the 1,000.000 tons
which Berlin has contended would re
sult from unrestricted submarine war
fare.
RUSSIANS CAPTURE CITY
Germany Contends That Withdrawal
From Marshes to Firm Terrain
Is to the Disadvantage of
the Entente Allies.
LONDON, March 8. Against stubborn
German resistance British troops today
advanced their line north of the Ancre
In France an average of a quarter of a
mile on a front of nearly five miles,
says the official statement tonight. The
British advance was made north of Pulsleux-au-Mont
and east of Gommecourt.
A long Berlin telegram received In
Amsterdam and transmitted by Reuter's
supplements the short statement in
Thursday's official statement from Ger
man general headquarters concerning
the evacuation of positions in the AncreJ
region.
Evacuation la Conceded.
After asserting the withdrawal was
made unobserved and without losses,
the telegram says the German rear
guards contrived to conceal the evacu
ation and for days held ud the British.
who had from 10 to 20 times the number
and who suffered severely. The British,
the statement adds, lost 80 prisoners
nd 200 men killed in one rearguard
ncounter near Little Wood on th
Lrommecourt-Fuisleux road.
British officers and men In the
Ancre sector," the telegram continues.
will smile bitterly at the trlumnhant
shouts of the British newspapers which
represent that the fighting in the
Ancre region Is the most Important
ince the battle of the Marne. From
the horrible marsh Into which snow and
rain have converted the ground the
Germans have withdrawn to firm
ground.
Captured Ground Ruined.
'The British, on the other hand, will
e under the most unfavorable condl
tlons in abandoned German trenches
which have been shattered to pieces,
with shelters blown up, villages in
ruins, wells filed up and roads ob
literated. In this waste the British will
lie exposed to all the Inclemencies of
the weather and under the German fire.
"All the trouble of the British, there
fore, has been in vain and at the cost
f heavy sacrifices. They must con
struct new positions under the destruc
tive fire of German batteries trained
upon every point in this terrain. Only
with endless trouble and great losses
can artillery be brought to the new posl
tions, while the Germans are secure
in strongly concentrated and long pre
pared positions and can look forward
to every new attack unweakened and
unshaken.
BERLIN, March 8. (By wireless to
Say vine.) There have again been vlo
lent infantry engagements on both
banks of the Ancre In Northern France
the War Office announced today. The
British suffered the loss of 60 pris
oners and eight machine guns, in addi
tion to their casualties.
PARIS. March 8. Successful recon
noltering operations by Fro: "h troop
at several points along the front are
reported In this afternoon's War Of
flee statement, which reads:
During the night our reconnoltering
parties carried out several successful
surprise attacks against German
trenches near Moulln-sous-Toutvant,
east of Hill 304 (Verdun region), and
In Apremont Forest. We took pris
oners and materials.
HAMADAN, PERSIA, TAKEN
TURKS ARE PURSUED.
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STOPS TOBACCO . HABIT.
Elders' Sanitarium, located at 518
Main street, St. Joseph, Mo., has pub
lished a book showing the deadly ef
fect of the tobacco habit and how it
can be Btopped in three to five days.
As they are distributing this book
free, anyone wanting a copy should
send their name and address at once.
Adv.
How cheertul the average married
man is When his wife's away on a visit.
Careless Use of
Soap Spoils the Hair
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Soap should be used very carefully,
If you want to keep your hair looking
Its best. Most soaps and prepared
shampoos contain too much alkali.
This dries the scalp, makes the hair
brittle, and ruins It.
The best thing for steady use Is Just
ordinary mulsifled cocoanut oil (which
Is pure and greaseless), and Is better
than the most expensive soap or any
thing else you can use.
One or two teaspoonfula will cleanse
the hair and scalp thoroughly. Simply
moisten the hair with water and rub It
tn. it manes an abundance of rich,
creamy lather, which rinses out easily.
removing every particle of dust, dirt,
dandruff and excessive olL The hair
dries quickly and evenly, and it leaves
the scalp soft and the hair fine and
silky, bright, lustrous, fluffy and easy
to manage.
You can get mulsifled cocoanut oil at
any pharmacy. It's very cheap, and
few ounces will supply every member
of the family for months. Adv.
9 RUSSIANS REPORTED SUNK
One Submarine Credited by Berlin;
TJ-Boat Loss Admitted.
BERLIN, March 8. (By t ireless to
Sayville, N. Y.) Nine armed Russian
steamers were destroyed by the Ger
man submarine which recently was
sunk near Hammerfest, according to a
Christiania dispatch in the Neue Zur
icher Zeitung, aa quoted by the Over-
a.s News Agency. These vessels are
said to have been purchased in South
America by Russia.
It was reported from Christiania on
January 28 and 34 men from a German
submarine which had ft-oundered off the
Norwegian coast had been landed near
Hammerfest.
Success May Mean Czar's Army AV1I1
Attempt Advance to Aid Brit
ish la Mesopotamia,
i. iaarcn s. Hamadan. an
Important Persian city near the Turk
ish border, has been captured by the
rtussians, says a Teheran dispatch re
ceived in Petrograd and transmitted by
Reuter's. The message adds that the
Russians are pursuing the Turkish
troops, who are In retreat.
The reported capture of Hamadan by
tne Russians may mean that the Ru
sians again will attempt an advance
Into Mesopotamia from Persia to aid the
British In their advance on the Tigris
toward uagaad. Hamadan. which 1
Z40 miles northeast of Basrdad. has
been the center of much fighting be
tween tne itusslans and Turks. In
April. 1915. It was occupied by Turkish
troops, but on December 17. 1915, I
was taken by the Russians, who made
their advance westward toward the
Turkish frontier, later capturing Ker
manshah and Khanlkin on the Persian
border, 130 miles northeast of Bagdad.
Following the capture of Kut-el
Amara by the Turks In April, 1916
the Russians were forced to retreat
from the Persian border and were
driven back through Kermanshah to
Hamadan, which was evacuated early
in August, 1916. Since then there ha
been much fighting In the Hamadan
region, and Turkish official announce
ments late in December and early in
January said that the Russians had
been repulsed in attacks near llama
dan.
DAIIiY ANNOUNCEMENTS END
French Admiralty to List U-Boat
Victims Once Each Week.
PARIS, March 3. The Admiralty has
decided not to publish daily the names
of torpedoed vessels. The announce
ment says that this publication has
caused "grave Inconvenience," and that
a weekly statement will be issued in
stead, giving the number of vessels of
different classes which have been sunk.
MADRID, March 3, via Paris. 9:30
A. M. The Cabinet has decided to pro
hibit transmission of news concerning
the movement of merchant vessels to
and from Spanish ports. ,
Progress of the War.
BRITISH troops maintain their daily
progress against the German lines
on the Ancre front in France. On Sat
urday Field Marshal Haig's forces, Lon
don records, made an average advance
of a quarter of a mile on a front of
nearly five miles despite stubborn Ger
man resistance.
The latest gain was made east of
Few Guardsmen Idle Now.
Only about a score of the men of
Troop A and Battery A, the last Ore
gon iS'atlonal Uuard units to return
from the Mexican border, remain on the
list of the unemployed.; Employers of
tne city are rast coming to their aid
and offering them the first chances for
work. It is expected that all of the
men will be provided for within a few
aays.
Woolmen See Demonstration.
PENDLETON. Or.. March 3. Sn.
cial.) The demonstration wool car sen
out by the bureau of animal industry,
the Oregon Agricultural College and th
O.-W. R. & N. Co., was visited by many
umaiuia county wooigrowers at Pen
dleton today. Special wool pictures
were shown at a local theater.
LAC0NIA MAIL LOSS BIG
Central Allies and Russia
Europeans Not Affected.
Only
WASHINGTON, March 3. Mail lost
when the Cunard liner Laconla was
sunk, the Postoffice Department an
nounced today, included that addressed
to European countries, except Oer
many, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria. Tur
key and Russia, received at New York
from noon February 14 to noon Feb
ruary 17. as well as that for South
Africa, West Australia and India.-
Mall for Holland received at New
York from January 19 to February 17
and for Norway, Sweden and Denmark
from February 1 to February 17 and
parcel post mall for Great Britain and
Ireland received at New York from
January 27 to February 17 also were
lost.
SHIPS ARE BEING WATCHED
Marshfleld Prosecutor Looking
Transfers ot Liquor.
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MARSHFIELD. Or.. March 8. (Spe
cial.) Special deputies from the She
iff s office and police watched th
steam schooners Hardy and Yellowstone
today and last night for violations
the liquor laws. .
John ir. Hall, District Attorney. Is
said to have asked for permission fro
the County Court to carry on
espionage, but the deputies have no
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BEN SELLING, LEADING CLOTHIER
MORRISON STREET AT FOURTH
searched the Hardy and Yellowstone.
None of the ships will leave port be
fore Sunday and some not until Mon
day or Tuesday, but the watching Is
said to be organized to cover their stay
in the harbor.
ARSON LAID TO STUDENT
Son of Chemical Company Secretary
Also Accused of Theft at Virginia.
CHARLOTTESVILLE. Va., March 3.
S. Dabney Crenshaw, IV, of Rich
mond, son of S. Dabney Crenshaw, sec
retary of the Virginia-Carolina Chem
ical Company, was arrested here today
charged with grand larceny and ma
liciously burning the chemical labora
tory of the university of Virginia,
January' 26. He was released under
$10,000 bond furnished by his father.
It is charged young Crenshaw, a
fourth-year student, sold about S2000
worth of platinum from the laboratory
and that he started the fire which de
stroyed the laboratory to cover up the
theft. A portion of the platinum, it
is alleged, was found in Crenshaw's
room in a fraternity house.
TEXAS GOVERNOR ACCUSED
Impeachment Proceedings May Fol
low Charge of Graft.
AUSTIN, Tex., March 8. Charges
which if proved may be made the basis
of Impeachment proceedings against
Governor i erguson were presented in
the House of Representatives today by
Representative H. P. Davis. Action was
deferred until Monday when the in
vestigation will be taken up.
The proceedings allege that Governor
Ferguson misappropriated publlo funds
from the legislative appropriation for
maintenance' of the executive mansion
by purchasing items for personal use
and charging the same to the state.
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British Steamer Ashore.
LEWES, Del.. March 3. Th-Britlsh
steamer Strathearn, from Chile for
Norfolk, went ashore today south of
Chincoteague Inlet, Va. Assistance has
been sent.
Ohio Wheat Sells for $2.
TOLEDO. O., March 3. For the first
time since the Civil War cash wheat
sold here today at $2 a bushel.
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