The Sunday Oregonian., April 22, 1917, Section One, Page 2, Image 2

8 TIIE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, APRDL 22, 1917.
AUSTRALIANS HAPPY
IN FIELD FIGHTING
BRITISH FOREIGN MINISTER WHO HEADS MISSION TO WAR
COUNCIL IN AMERICA,
40th ANNIVERSARY
Chance to Leave Trenches for
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Wounded Men Helping Each Other
to Hear, Bursting Shells, Shat
tered Houses and Dead Ger
mans Are Few Scenes.
t?rom a Staff Correspondent of the Asso
ciated Press. )
AUSTRALIAN HEADQUARTERS IN
FRANCE, April 21. After these many
months of trench warfare, there Is keen
delight for the Australian troops In
this new field warfare, which the Ger
man retirement has opened up. The
fighting Is In the open country now,
over gently-rolling downs of what look
like grass land. It Is really, most of
It, wheat or turnip land, which has not
been cultivated for a year or two. The
country Is as open as the Australian
central plains.
It is quite a new sort of battlefield
for these Australians. They march
down to It through valleys almost ex
actly like the valleys in the peaceful
parts of France. There are whole acres
In which one cannot see a single ehell
hole.
Back across the green country or
down the open roads come men in twos
or threes occasionally, sauntering as
one might find them on a country road
on Sunday. They are the wounded help
ing one another back to the dressing
Ftatlon. The walking wounded have to
help each other back in these modern
battles. It is no longer looked upon
bs meritorious for an unwounded com
batant to leave the field and. help a
Wounded comrade to the rear.
Bayonets Always Fixed.
Nearer the front the country becomes
more feverish. Angry bursts of tawny
color are seen In a haphazard sort of
way dotting the horizon and the coun
tryside. Here and there are Austra
lians in great coats standing behind
mounds of earth with their rifles point
ed over the top, bayonets always fixed.
Frequently when there is no other shel
ter there are hastily-scooped trenches.
A quarter of a mile away another
party is lining a roadside, flat on their
stomachs In the ditch, bayonets peeping
over the top. Shells are whizzing by
.t the rate of two or three a minute,
high explosives bursting on contact be
hind their backs, about as far away
sa the other side of a cottage parlor.
Over a bit to the right is a sleepy
French village. Not a living thing is
to be seen down these 'straggling
Lagrflcourt streets. The bricks of tum
bled walls lie here and there, Just as
the shells knocked them.
Through them, just as In old battle
pictures, may be seen the bodies of dead
Oetmans, at corners, in the angles of
tumbled houses, a courtyard visible
through a shattered brick wall, two of
them visible In the bottom of one ot
the big craters which the Germans
themselves blew at every crossroads to
impede the enemy's advance. Nothing
etirs in the whole village and the only
pound coming from this abode of death
is the occasional fall of a tile or some
debris thrown skyward by a shell de
scending from over behind the next vil
lage. t Australian Is Earnest.
Once In a while a prisoner Is being
escorted to the rear. There Is some
thing very impressive about these lit
tle processions of two men, prisoner
and escort. The prisoner, usually a
young German private. In neat gray
uniform and steel helmet, walks in
front.
After him, grasping his rifle in both
hands across his chest, his weather
beaten brows puckered as he picks his
way over the tumbled stones, comes
the living embodiment of the Austra
lian back country. Nine cases out of
ten, somehow, the soldier who escorts
a. prisoner seems to be that bit of
pure Australia, either Western Aus
tralia or South Australia, the Warrego
or the Burdekin.
He is an earnest man, intent on ex
ecuting his errand with despatch and
exactitude. "Can you tell me the way
to headquarters?" he asks as he passes.
Then he disappears slowly up the street
on the heels of his silent companion.
These Australians are just as good
fighters in this new warfare as they
were at Gallipoll or In the trenches,
perhaps even better. "They had their
first encounter with German cavalry
the other day, but it was only a feint
at flank and lasted only a few minutes.
CAR SHORTAGE AT HEIGHT
Railway Report Shows Situation on
April 1 Worst in History.
tvEW YORK, April 21. The largest
ireignicar snortage ever reported by
American railroads existed on April 1,
it was announced here today by the
American Railway Association.
The shortage on that date was 143,
059 cars, an increase of 12,977 as com
pared with March 1.
35 SHOE FACTORIES QUIT
Iijnn Manufacturers Attribute Clos
ing to Labor Conditions.
L.Yi.N, Mass.. April 21 The T.imn
Bhoe Manufacturers' Association, whose
members control 25 plauts in this city,
announced today that it had ceased to
manufacture shoes because of labor
conditions.
The employes recently asked a 10 per
cent wasre increase.
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ARTHUR J. BALFOtTB.
MR BALFOUR LANDS
Tv;o Troops of Cavalry Are to
Guard Commission.
PRESS AIDS IN PROTECTION
Secretary of State Tells Public How
Newspapers Omitted Mention
of Movements Some, How
ever, Give Concern.
MEDICINES, LIKE MEI,
HAVE GHARAGTER
From their fine outward appearance,
through the various elements of
strength that go to make up the stand
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and absolute test does ijt "make good"?
does it cure? Hood's Sarsaparilla and
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Hood's Sarsaparilla originated in a
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(Continued From First Page.)
rived at a place in America which
cannot be named.
A delegation of State, War and
Navy Department officials welcomed
the commission in the name of the
Government and set out with them to
the Capital for what is admittedly the
most vital conference in American his
tory. ...
The Commission was received witn
the utmost simplicity and cordiality
and with every recognition of the fact
that Great Britain had given of her
best. It is said, indeed, that no Foreign
Minister has left England for the
length of time that Mr. Balfour will
be away since the Congress of Vienna,
a century ago.
Train Held Five Days.
The formal welcome was extended
by Third Assistant Secretary of State
Breckinbridge Long, through the pres
entation to Mr. Balfour of a letter of
greeting from Secretary Lansing, which
the British statesman acknowledged
with equal simplicity while British and
American officials mingled together.
A special train of five cars, which
had been waiting with steam up and
crew aboard for five days, at once got
under way for the Capital, guarded as
almost no other train ever has been
guarded in this country. Double pro
tection had been afforded at all bridges
and tunnels, and every mile of the
track has been gone over within the
previous i. hours to guard, against a
possible fanatic. No detail of any sort
whatsoever which could betray the
place of arrival or route of travel was
allowed to escape.
Plans Begna Informally.
Almost immediately when the train
started the large party broke up Into
groups of Army, Navy and State De
partment officials to begin at once the
informal conversations which are ex
pected to sketch out America's part in
the world fight against German au
tocracy. Mr. Balfour and Secretary Long,
Lieutenant-General Bridges, who drew
the first blood for England In August,
1914, and Major-General Leonard Wood,
and Rear-Admiral De Chair and Rear
Admiral F. F. Fletcher soon were in
deep conversation on the various
phases of American participation.
On all sides it was reiterated that
the British had come in a spirit of
service and appreciation, and that it
was their hope that the lessons they
had learned In the war at such cost
might be of service to this country
in avoiding similar mistakes.
Similarly, as one official expressed
It, the Commission was moved by ex
actly the same feelings which raised
the Stars and Stripes to the flag tower
of the Parliament building in London
for the first time a foreign flag ever
has flown there in history.
Secretary Balfour, a tall, slim, white
haired man of 69 years, who has held
the highest posts In th Empire since
he first entered Parliament 43 years
ago, saw today the completion of one
of his life hopes expressed under vastly
different circumstances on January 15,
1896, when he was largely Instrumental
in averting war between England and
America over the Venezuela dispute.
Forecast of Loig Ago True.
"It cannot but be," he said, "that
those whose national roots go down
into the same past as ours, who share
our language, our literature, our laws,
our religion everything that makes a
nation great, it cannot but be that a
time will come when they will feel
that they and we have a common duty
to perform, a common office to fulfill
among the nations of the world."
While unable to grant an extended
interview before presenting himself to
President Wilson, Mr. Balfour willingly
consented to say a few words as to his
general hopes for the conference and
the fundamental purposes behind It. A
verbatim copy follows:
"All will agree that my first duty
as head of a diplomatic mission is
to pay my respects to the haad of the
state to which I have been sent; and
no public expression of opinion on
points of policy would, X think, be
useful or even tolerable until I bave
had the honor of conferring with your
President and learning his views. I
have not come here to make speeches
or indulge In interviews; but to do
what I can to make co-operation easy
and effective between those who are
striving with all their power to bring
about a lasting peace by the only
means that can secure it, namely, a
successsful war.
"Without, however, violating the rule
I have just laid down, there are two
things which I may permit myself to
say: One on my own behalf, the
other on behalf of my countrymen in
general.
"On my own behalf, let me express
the d- gratification I feel at being
connected In any capacity whatever
with events which associate our coun
tries in a common effort for a great
ideal.
"On behalf of my countrymen, let me
express our gratitude for all that ti.a
citizens of the United States of Amer
ica have done to mitigate the lot of
those who. In the allied cause, have
suffered from the cruelties of the most
deliberately cruel of all wars. To name
no others. efforts of Mr. Gerard
to alleviate the condition of British
and other prisoners of war In Germany
and the administrative genius which
Mr. Hoover has ungrudgingly devoted
to the rell-T of the unhappy Belgians
and French In the territories still in
enemy occupation, will never be for
gotten; while an Inexhaustible stream
of charitable effort has supplied medi
cal and nursing skill to the service of
the wounded and the sick.
Wilson's Phrase Indorsed.
"These are the memorable doings of
a beneficent neutrality. But the days
of neutrality are, I rejoice to think, at
an end: and the first page Is being
turned in a new chapter in the history
of mankind. Tour President, in a most
apt and vivid phrase, has proclaimed
that the world must be made safe for
democracy. Democracies wherever they
are to be found, and not least the de
mocracies of the British Empire, will
hall the pronouncement as a happy
augury. That self-governing communi
ties are not to be treated as negligible
simply because they are small; that the
ruthless domination of one unscrupu
lous power imperils the future of civ
ilization and the liberties of mankind
are truths of political ethics which the
bitter experience of war is burning Into
the souls of all freedom-loving peoples.
That this great people should have
thrown themselves whole-heartedly
into this mighty struggle, prepared for
all the efforts and sacrifices that may
be required to win success for this
most righteous cause. Is an event at
once so happy and so momentous that
only the historian of the future will
be able, as I believe, to measure Its
true proportions. A. J. BALFOUR,"
PARTY GOES TO CAPITAL TODAY
Press Aids Protection and Wins
Government's Thanks.
WASHINGTON. April 21. Foreign
Minister Balfour and the other mem
bers of the commission sent to America
by the Government of Great Britain are
expected to arrive in Washington at 3
o'clock tomorrow afternoon on a spe
cial train.
Secretary Lansing received tonight
this telegram from Mr. Balfour sent in
reply to a letter of greeting:
Allow me to thank you most cor
dlally for the warm expressions of wel
come from the Government and people
of the United States, conveyed in the
letter handed me by the American con
sul at (name of place deleted). Please
convey to the President my deep ap
preciation of their friendly sentiments
and tell him with what great pleasure
I accept on behalf of myself and my
mission the generous offer of hospital
ity made by the President on behalf of
the Nation.
"May I add an expression of the pro
found satisfaction with which I find
myself on American soil at this crisis
In the history of the world?"
There will be little ceremony in the
greeting of the visitors at the railroad
station tomorrow. Secretary Lansing
will be on the platform to receive Mr.
Balfour.
Two troops of the Second Cavalry will
escort Mr. Balfour and his Immediate
party, accompanied by Mr. Lansing, to
the residence prepared for them.
The safe landing of Mr. Balfour and
his party was anounced today by the
State Department.
The official announcement said:
"The Department of State has been
advised of the safe landing of Mr,
Balfour and his party."
In a supplementary statement the
State Department expressed Its appreci
ation to those newspapers which in co
operation with the Government's ef
forts to insure the safety of the British
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Anti-German Klots Cease.
PORTO ALEGRE. Brazil. April 11.
The anti-German riots have ceased and
normal conditions have been restored.
A number of patrlotlo manifestations
have taken place throughout the state
of Rio Grande do SuL
Holland Asserts Neutrality.
WASHINGTON. April 21. Holland
has formally notified the State De
partment that it will maintain a strict
neutrality in the war between Ger
many and the United States.
Itoseburg Man Wounded in France.
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Word has been received in Roseburg
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front-line trenches In France. Upon
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Woman Traveler Killed.
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Troy, N. Y.. fell or Jumped from a New
York Central passenger train today.
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found beside the track near here.
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