THE. SUNDAY OREGOXIANY PORTLAND. SEPTEMBER 10. 1917. SWED EN SEEKS 10 ERADICATE TAINT Foreign Office Stops Sending German Messages and "In-' vestigates Practice. EXPLANATION IS DEMANDED foreign Minister Asserts "ation Takes Charges Seriously and Is Jealous of Standing Before World as, Xeutral. STOCKHOLM, Sept. 15. Sweden rea lizes the seriousness of. the situation created by the recent disclosures at "Washington, reyardinar tho transmis sion of German dispatches and expects to' take all steps possible to put mat ters right. Foreign Minister Lindman told the Associated Press during an in formal talk. All transmission of German dis patches had been stopped, he said, and Garmany had been asked for an ex planation of the abuse of the privilege formerly extended. In the course of his discussion of the affair with the correspondent. Admiral Lindmtu brought out the following points: ('First That the Swedish govern ment was not, as alleged in certain quarters, taking the affair lightly, but, on the contrary, realized fully the se rious aspect of the situation and in tended to do everything possible to set tle the problem. Germany Asked to Explain, ''Second That transmission of dis patches on behalf of Germany had been stopped absolutely from the moment when the disclosures were brought to the Foreign Minister's attention and would under no circumstances be re sumed. -Third That had the Swedish gov ernment the slightest idea of the na ture of the dispatches which the Ger man government was transmitting the messages would never have been trans mitted. ','Fourth That strong representa tions had been addressed to the Ger man government on the abuse made of this practice, accompanied, by A re quest for explanation, to which, how ever, no reply had yet been received. Admiral Lindman, during the entire conversation, seemed imbued with the desire to see the situation cleared up fully and completely on a basis satis factory to the United States and Swe den, and in a. way to permit the con tinuance of the most friendly, cordial relations with the American Govern ment and people. Practice Stopped. "As soon as I was informed of Sec retarr Lansing's statement," said Ad miral Lindman, "I immediately gave orders to cease this practice. This would have been done earlier as a mat ter of cjurse had my attention been called to the undeslrability of the prac tice." The Foreign . Minister has as yet been un-ole to explain, the exact cir cumstances under which the practice of transmitting dispatches in code for Germany had come into being, a it was an inheritance rrom the adminis tration of his predecessor. . He had ordered a rigia investigation within his department as to the origin of the sys tem, no saia. LONDON. Sept. 15. Count A. Wran trel. the Swedish . Minister to Great Britain, and the Countess Wrangel left London today for the continent on a few weeks' leave of absence. Count Wranfcel yesterday had a long confer ence with Lord Robert Cecil, the British Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, presumably on the subject of the Swedish-Argentinian disclosures. Count Wraasel Dismissed. Count Wrangel's departure from Lon don; while not In the nature of a dis missal, is generally taken as an indica tion that the British government is dis satisfied with the explanations thus far made and the steps thus far taken by Sweden in reply to the British represen tations regarding the Luxburg affair. WASHINGTON, Sept. 15. German Minister von Kokhardt's denial that he used the Swedish charge d'affaires in Mexico City for transmitting messages to Germany, or that he had written a letter recommending an award for those services arouses no anxiety at the State Department, where officials, al though surprised at the sweeping de nial, consider that their Investigation determined the authenticity of the dis closures and that Von Eekhardt' letter epeaks for itself. NOTES PKIXTED IX GEBMAXY Tress Admits Bad Impression Cre ated in Argentina. AMSTERDAM. Sept. 15. The three cablegrams sent by Count Luxburg, German Minister to Argentina, to the' tierman Foreign Office through the .Swedish Legation have finally been J'ermitted to be published in the Ger man press. The ICoelnisch Zeitong says that it is easy to understand that the publica tion of these dispatches In Argentina has made an unpleasant impression and that 1'resident Wilson has so far prob ably been successful with his maneu ver, but adds that they can only be rightly judged if it is not forgotten that they were secret raewagea in code and if the dispatches of the en tente diplomacy could be read stili more drastic expressions would-be en countered. Regarding the phrase in one of Count Luxburg's dispatches about sinking f tesmships without leaving a trace, the laper argues that the expression does no mean sinking a ship with all hands, 1ut so sinking her that military mis laps mifrht be avoided, as, for example, concealing the fact from other ships that she was sunk by a submarine and not a mine. lt is self-evident," say the Koel nische Zeitung, "that the German gov ernment cannot be held responsible for the opinions of any one of its Min isters." has been postponed until this evening and there is every hope of an agree ment. Both parties accept the principle of a coalition cabinet and have no objec tion to Constitutional Democrats be coming ministers on condition that they immediately leave that party. The grounds for this decision is the view of the parties that the Constitutional Democrats as a whole, although there is no evidence of their complicity in the rebellion and in the demonstrations at Moscow, sided with and encouraged General, Korniloff. New ConrrfM Demanded. . The parties further aemand the con vocation of a new Congress on the lines of t that held . in Mo. cow, from which, however, the members c all four Dumas would be excluded. It is suggested that the Congress meet not later than September 33 and sit until the meeting of the constituent assem bly.. Secretary Soskice added that Premier Kerensky now is in excellent health, despite the fact that throughout the recent crisis, he has worked 18 hours dally. Judging from the tone of press com ments, party and individual expressions of opinion which .are raining in, the Korniloff episode has -had the effect of quickening interest in the war and con vincing the publlo that only a well disciplined army with a vigorous fight ing programme can save Kussia. General Palchinsky, the new com mander" of the troops in the Petrograd district, in an interview, assures the public that the revolt "has had not the slightest unfavorable influence on the fighting capacity of our troops." Troops in Good Spirits, Telegrams from the front announce that the spirit of the soldiers is good, while an official dispatch refers to the devoted bravery displayed by the sol diers fighting at Ok la. It is stated that the revolting troops everywhere are returning to their positions. General Stcherbatchef f, the. commander- on the Roumanian front, has Issued a stirring appeal, declaring that it is the supreme duty of the soldiers to defend the fatherland against the foreign foe. Alexander J. Guchkoff, one of the leaders of the Octoberist party and for mer Minister of War and Marine, ad Interim, who was arrested several days ago on suspicion of complicity in the counter-revolutionary plot, has been re leased from custody. Members of the staff of the newspaper Novoe Vremya under arrest have also been released. American Labor Support Pledged. WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 Samuel Gompers, -president of the - American Federation of Labor, has cabled to Pre mier Kerensky a resolution adopted by the Minneapolis conference of the American Alliance for Labor and De mocracy, pledging the support of the American working class to the new Russian democracy. PRESIDENT ASKS HASTE SEJfATE PLANS TO EXPEDITE PAS SAGE! OF INSURANCE BILL. RUSSIA WEATHERS CRISIS (Continued From First Par. teniAtives ot the Social Democrats and Foetal Revolutionists visited Premier Kerensky and announced their parties would withdraw If tho Constitutional democrats were taken Lack into the ministry. The story of the visit is rot true, but . Hoskice. secretary to Premier Keren tsky who is a member of the council of the Social Revolutionist party, in formed the Associated Prtni that the difficulty actually has arisen. Yesterday committees of both parties drew up identical resolutions declaring- it would be impossible to collab orate with Premier Kerensky if Con stitutional. Democrats were made min isters, but voting m the resolutions Brief Public Hearings to Be Held by Sab-Committee; Debate la Ex. pected ThU Week. "WASHINGTON, Sept. 15. Plans to expedite passage by the Senate of the soldiers and sailors' insurance bill were completed today after Senator Martin, Democratic leader, received a communication from President "Wilsop urging itm enactment before adjourn ment. . . A Senate finance sub-committee consisting- of Senators Williams, Smith, of Georgia, and Smoot, was immediately appointed by . Chairman Simmons to take up the bill, which was passed by the House last Thursday without a dis senting vote. The sub-committee will begin, work Monday and later hold brief public hearings, at which Insur ance company representatives and oth ers will be heard. Prompt committee action is planned and Senate debate is expected to begin within a week. Senate leaders tonight predicted that even with time taken for passage of the Insurance bill Congre? can adjourn between October 5 and 12. Enactment of the insurance measure virtually In the form presented by the Administra tion also was forecast. POLAND GETS PROMISE AUSTRIAN EMPEROR SAYS LIBERTY IS TO BE EX JOYED. Consolidation of State In Accordance With Manifesto of April. 1018, De clared Agreeable to K a later. VIENNA, Sept. 15. Emperor Charles of Austria has addressed the following autograph letter to Count Szeptyce Kzeptypcki. the archbishop of Lemberg, who is expected to be the chairman of the new Polish regency council: "In agreement with the German Em peror, I intend steadfastly to continue the consolidation of the Polish state in accordance with the manifesto of April 6, 1916, so that that country may be liberated from its heavy yoke and may attain, so far as tbe war situation per mits, the development of the generous cultural and economic forces necessary to its political structure. ''Owing to the hard war times. It has not yet been possible for a Polish King as bearer of the old, honorable and glo rious crown of the Jagellons again to enter the country's capital, and for the people's representatives, founded on democratic principles, to meet at War saw. But now, according to the- wishes of the nation, the organs of the Polish state will be created and endowed with legislative and executive power." SWISS DEPENDENT Oil BELLIGERENTS Cereals Have to Be Imported From Allies and Iron From the Central Powers. GERMANY YIELDING MUCH Coal Supplied Neutral Freely, While People at Home Are Cold. Economic Sacrifice Blade to Cain Political Ends. PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 18. Little Switzerland's plight in the midst of the great war and her dependence upon America for her means of existence were pictured in an address before the American Academy of Political and Social Science here today by Professor William E. Rappard. of the University of Geneva, a member of the Swiss eco nomic delegation to the United States. Professor Rappard declared his people's sympathy -with the champions of de mocracy against autocracy, as becomes the citizens of the oldest republic of the world, but that neutrality was a fundamental element in their national life and their word "not a scrap of paper." "Since 1914." he said, "Switzerland has become entirely dependent on the allies in general and on the United States in particular for many essential commodities, the most important of, which is grain. On the other hand. Switzerland has become equally de pendent on the central powers in gen eral and on Germany in particular for equally essential commodities, the most important of which are coal, iron, chemical fertilizers and potatoes. That the central powers should not supply us gratuitously with coal and iron is as natural as it is natural that the allies should not allow us to pay for them with the foodstuffs they export to us. Cereals Are lanorted. "The. allies have recognized that our economic relations with the, central powers have been limited so far as is compatible with the necessity of our National existence. In order to live, we must import some cereal foodstuffs from the allies and export some prod uct of our grazing industry to the central powers. To deny us the right to import or to make it dependent upon refusal to export would, there fore, be to deny us the right to live. "In her efforts to hold and to gain the sympathies of Switzerland,. Ger many has used two tools, one intel lectual and the other economic. The first has failed her. "A bad cause poorly defended, such is the Swiss opinion of the German propaganda. With the other tool Ger- mapy has been' much more efffective. in spite of our contrary sympathies. or perhaps on account of them, she has been generous toward us. Burn ing exclusively German coal, the Swiss people suffered less from last Winter's cold than ' the German people them selves. Last year, three-fourths pf our imported potatoes were furnished us by Germany. Our own crop had failed and this Sprrng, when we were in dire need of potato seeds. Germany, in spite of her own shortage, supplied us liberally. Germany Yields Much. "In her present situation, there are few economic sacrifices which Germany would not make if they were fruitful of political advantage. Fortunately, the allies have also treated us fairly thus far. "The United States Government has it in its power to serve Switzerland or to ruin her. For America to serve Switzerland in the present crisis is to clear the way for a realization of the American peace idea, by convincing the most hardened of German skeptics and cynics of its absolute sincerity and of its moderation. For America to let Switzerland perish or to allow her to be served through the shrewd and calcu lating generosity of th. German au tocracy would be to abandon the most ancient and the firmest foothold of lib eral and federative democracy on the continent of i-urope. CITY SELLS COAL AT $4.15 Five Hundred Tons Disposed Of by Denver In One Day. DENVER. Sept. 15. Five hundred tons of lignite coal were sold by the city of Denver today in the first half day of its operation as a retail coal dealer. The price was $4.15 a ton de livered. At the main office a 40-ton carload of coal was .sold in the first 15 min utes the office was open. Two others were eold at this office before noon. Approximately ISO persons gave orders for the fuel. The coal was cold to persons of limited income only. I. Vf. W. Agitators Watched. OREGOXIAM NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington. Sept. 13. The Attorney-General today wrote Senator Chamberlain that his department is working to curtail further activity of the Industrial Work ers " of the World in the' Northwest, where that activity is tending to inter fere wi(h the output of apple boxes. Progress of the War. RUSSIA'S internal situation was con siderably clarified by Saturday's news dispatches, which announced the arrest of General Korniloff, marking the definite end of his revolt, and the formation of a new Cabinet at Petro grad. Publication of the names of the new Cabinet members was deferred for a day. With General Korniloff was arrested General Lokomsky. who was in com mand on the Kuusian northern front when the revolt started and who cast his lot with his chief. What the fate of the two men will be is problemati cal. Vtah's 40 Per Cent Certified. SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 15. The district exemption board completed the certification of the full list of names of men who will go to Camp American Lake Wednesday as the 40 per cent of Utah's quota.Af the National Army. Utah's quota is 2607, Sweden Is minded to do everything possible to bet matters right so far us she was concerned with the German dispatches transmitted through her Foreign Office, as brought out in the recent Washington disclosures. For. eign Minister Lindman informed the Associated Press correspondent Stockholm. She has stopped the prac tice and will not renew, he stated, and has asked Germany for an explanation of its abuse of privilege. Germany and - Austria have " pro claimed creation of a regency to gov ern Poland, the two nations retaining joint control of foreign affairs during the period of occupation and of certain other powers of government not yet made clear.,. Military activities on most of the fronts seem to be at a minimum. Rome's official statement, while re porting a-ratification of the Italian lines on the isamsizza Plateau, does not mention particularly the fight for Monte San Gabriele, which height on Friday was reported in diplomatic dis patches to Washington to have -been captured. On the Franco-Belgian front the only actions were minor affairs except at Verdun, where, Paris reports. the French were successful in retaining most of the trenches which the Ger mans penetrated porta of Caurieres wood on Friday. steamer. The exact location where the s-ubmarine was sighted was not given. officers of the steamer were of the opinion that the underwater craft had been lurking in the steamship lane be tween Halifax, St- Lawrence River ports and Europe. They thought it likely also that the submersible re ported today as attacking a steamer off Nantucket might have been the one sighted previously in Northern waters. It was probable, they said, that she had been driven off the northern course and had worked to the southward in hope of catching unawares vessels from American ports. WASHINGTON. . Sept. IS The Navy Department tonight had no confirma tion of reports of a hostile submarine off the North Atlantic coast. The only information it had was the statement of a British merchant captain that his ship -had received an S. O. S. call from another vessel saying she was attacked by a U-boat, as forwarded by naval of ficials to whom the captain reported. Naval stations and patrol boats were instructed to keep a close watch for any raider. In the absence of confirmation. Navy officers were inclined to think the wireless call might have been a hoax sent by some amateur operator. NORWAY IiOSES SUNT SHIPS German Submarine Activity Takes Heavy Toll From Neutral. PHILADELPHIA. Sept. IS More than one-third of Norway's commercial fleet has been destroyed by Germany, and prospects are that if the present situation continues long the remainder will be sent to the bottom, according to Dr. Fridtjog Nansen, of the Norwe gian mission, now In this country. He was one of the principal speakers last night before the National Conference of the World's Food Supply being held here under the auspices of the Ameri can Academy of Political and Social Science. 'Our shipping between Great Britain and her allies was not considered with friendly eyes by the Germans." said Dr. Nansen, "and their U-boat warfare has to a great extent been directed against our shipping, and our losses have therefore been heavier than those of any other neutral nation, and X be lieve one-third of our commercial fleet has been destroyed." TAXES TO JBEPAID SOON Government Preparing Warrants for . Railroad JLand Grant Counties. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, Sept. 15. Representative Sin nott today called on the Land Com missioner to urge prompt payment of accrued taxes to the various Oregon and California land grant counties of Oregon, .it having been decided offi cially that -taxes with costs and penal ties up to the date of revestment of title were justly due. The commissioner told Mr. Sinnott, papers providing for the payments are now in course of preparation and will be forwarded through the Secretary of the Interior to the Treasury De partment, which will draw warrants in settlement of these' accounts. The Commissioner thinks all pay ments will have been made within the next 30 days. ixy This Likly 0(k - 4 whether you intend to travel this year or not Bag 75 Because with the upward trend of the leather market it will be worth fully 50 per cent more in the next season. Genuine Cowhide and a uniform ly good-looking and good-wearing bag. - Has the popular extended gusset and refined appearance which are associated with Likly Luggage. ACT All who QUICKLY know values will lose no time in ordering, and the LIMITED QUANTITY WILL GO FAST. Buying in Large Quantities and Selling at a Small Margin of Profit Enable Us to Make This Very Special Price HOBO CONSERVATION URGED Thousands of Idlers Declared Fit for Military Service. CHICAGO. Sept. IS. The conserva tion of the hobo power 6t the United States by an annual registration was advocated today by John A. Gray, of New York, speaking at the opening session of the lath annual convention of the International Lyceum Association. "There are millions of hobos in the country, he declared, thousands of whom are of the draft age and would profit from military training. Round them up each year, train those who are fit and put the others at work in va rious institutions." OHIO GOVERNOR . MARRIES Miss Margaretta Blair Bride of Jame 51. Cox. ELM HURST, Ills., Sept. 15. James M. Cox, Governor of Ohio, was married here today to Miss Margaretta Blair, daughter of Thomas S. Blair, Jr., at the residence of the bride s family. The ceremony was simple. Adjutant-Gen eral George Wood and Colonel James Hull, both members of the staff of Governor Cox, were his attendants. Mrs. Parker Blair and Miss Eleanor Ogden West, both of Klmhurst, at tended the bride. Governor and Mrs. Cox left tonight for Hot Springs, Va-, where they first met, and where they will spend ten days. GRAIN PREFERRED FREIGHT Railroads in St. Louis District to Help Food Administration. 8T. Louis, Sept. 15. As a 'result of a conference here today by members of the St. Louis car commission of the railroads' war board and Edward M. Flesh, agent fer the Federal Food Ad ministration, shipments of wheat and rye in the states under the St. Louis office of the food control will have preferential treatment by the railroads. Wheat and flour shipments will be kept moving, even though this involves a car shortage for other classes of freight. 20,000 TO LEARN KEYS Telegraphy W1I Be Taught Men in Public Schools of Chicago. CHICAGO, Sept. 15. The Illinois Manufacturers' Association and the Chicago Association of Commerce to day indorsed a movement to train 20.- 000 telegraphers for service In the Signal Corps of the United States Army. Telegraphy will be taught men of military age In public schools or Chi cago, as well as universities, colleges sod technical institutions throughout the central department of the Army, it was announced. On the Riga front the Russians are still aggressive and their War Office reports advances which resulted in the occupation of several town. U-BOAT ASSAILS VESSEL f Continued From Flint Page.) , sank five steamships, sparing an Amer ican vessel, as the United States was not then in the war. A British steamer arriving today re ported that she had received wireless warning from the Cape Race. New foundland, station on September 13, of the presence of a submarine that had been reported previously by another Anti-Draft Vote ot Recorded. ABILENE. Tex.. Sept. 15. Testifying at the trial of 63 members of the arm ers' and Laborers' Protective Associa tion of America, charged with anti- draft activities. G. T. Hughes, of Mun day. said that the organization had passed a resolution which opposed con scription. but on instructions from President Z. L. Rlsley, the secretary did not enter it on the minutes. Dutch Ministers to Shift. THE HAGUE, Pept. 15. Chevalier W. L. F. C. Van Rappard. The Nether lands Minister to the United States, It is reported here, is destined to replace J. H. Van Roy en at Madrid. As the latter is the prospective new Minister at Washington, this would simply amount to an exchange of diplomatic posts. " MAE SMALL 700 -WOMT A 6171 J 0IS SVCT AT UT BAEK Always "S. A H. Stamps First Three Floors. ISHII RELATES AIHS Japan's Ideals Are Held to Parallel America's. DANGER OF INTRIGUE SEEN Nippon's Envoy, Speaking at Inde pendence' Hall, Foresees Time When Liberty Bell Shall Again Vroclalra Righteous Peace. PHILADELPHIA. Sept 15. "Japan stands with' the United States through out the struggle for liberty and free dom and will rejoice with America when the Liberty Bell snail again ring the proclamation of a righteous peace." declared Viscount Klkujiro Ishii. Am bassador Extraordinary and head of the Japanese war' mission in this country. in an address today at independence Hall. "The force that moved this great bell to sound the alarm in 1776 is the same human force that brings the call to us today. It was and Is the force that rings in the right and rings out the wrong. It seems to me that there could be no more fitting opportunity than to assure you that Japan's ideals and hopes run parallel to America's." The ceremonies at Liberty shrine marked the beginning of a whirlwind tour and reception to the mission which will last until midnight, when the party departs for Newport. Speaking at the luncheon. Viscount Ishii paid tribute to Roland S. Morris, suocessor of George W. Guthrie, late American Ambassador to Japan. He said that Japan and America have been the victims of a vicious campaign of slander and intrigue as dastardly and horrible "as the black record of German crimes on the Atlantic, in Belgium or in France can show." "We are wide awake now to the danger and in this, as in other fields of active warfare against our common enemy, we will In future stand closer together because of the experiences of the past," he said. "National unity is always paramount and international amity Is dependent upon that unity well conceived. America and japan, each as a united Nation, can aid the other and together can help ourselves and our neighbors to better and happier things." DEAN OF WOMEN RESIGNS Miss Junta Todd Returns to Alma Mater at Indlanola, low a. WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITT. Salem. Or., tjept. 15. (Special.) Miss Junta Todd has resigned her position as dean of women at Willamette University to accept a similar position at Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa, her alma raster. Miss Todd came to Willamette three yer:r ago as dean of women. She has been preceptress of Lausanne Hall, the girls' dormitory, also for that period of time, and a true friend to every girl in the school. It Is with much regret they see her leave. Miss Todd Is a sister to Dr. E H. Todd, president of the College of Puget Sound, and formerly vice-president of Willamette, and to Dr. John Todd. Su perintendent of City Schools in Halem. Earth Shocks Damage Bogota. WASHINGTON. Rnt IS Official dispatches today from Bogota, Colom- Vs i a lav tha rl h . 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