THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, SEPTEMBER 23, 1017. BRITISH WARSHIPS BOMBARD OSIEIID German Naval Works in Bel gium Objects of Attack From Sea. BATTLE SURGES ALL DAY Ypres-Mcnin Koad Center of Con flict Airmen Fly Low and Break Tp Reinforcements and Fire Into Trenches. SOXDON. Sept. I!. British -warships this morning bombarded the Gfrman naval works at Ostend with satisfac tory results, it was announced today by the British Admiralty. Three Ger man seaplanes were shot down by Brit ish airplanes. The following: official statement, dealing- with the activities of the Brit ish aviation corps during: the British offensive in Flanders, was Issued last ninht by the War Office: "Louring: the first two hours of our attack on Thursday low clouds ana t drizzling rain made flying: almost Impossible. HQwever. our airplanes flew out at low altitude and dropped bombs on a hostile airdrome near Opurtral. besides firing: at bodies oi Oerman Infantry. Aa soon as the weather improved our aerial activity became great and contact was kepi, with out advancing troops and both airplanes and balloons save observa tion for our artillery. On several oc casions, the location of enemy troops preparing: for a counter-attack was re ported to our artillery, which success fully dealt with the situation. Airplanes Fly loir. '"While the attack was In progress, airplanes fired from their machine guns over 28,000 rounds from heights ranging between 100 and 1000 feet at Oerman infantry in their trenches and shell holes and at reinforcements com ing up to the battle By the Associated Press.) WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN FRANCE ANE BELGIUM. Sept. 22. Hard fighting developed during the night at various points along the front of the new Britinh offensive east of Ypres as a result of severel heavy counter attacks by the Germans. But while local battles are atiil continuing, the enemy was thrown back in most places with severe losses. Generally speaking the situation remained un changed. One of the heaviest counter attacks made by the Germans was west .of Gravenstafel ridge, about a mile and a half north of the Tpres-Roulers Rail way. The enemy surged forward from an elevation in mass formation and hurled themselves against the British along a front of nearly a mile. It Is reported that the Germans advanced under a white flag and if they did they were fully rewarded for their treach ery, for they were repulsed with very heavy losses. Assault Most Determined. The assaut here was most deter mined, and sanguinary fighting fol lowed. At one point the on-rushing enemy penetrated the British line for a distance of a fifth of a mile, bllt was quickly driven out at the point of the bayonet, and the whole attacking force was compelled to retreat, leaving the ground strewn with dead and wounded. Another small counter attack, which was attempted in an adjoining sector, was broken up by artillery fire before the Germans even came in contact with the British infantry. Shortly after 8 o'clock last night the Germans launched counter attacks on a mile and half front astride the Ypres Alaiines road east of Inverness copse and Dumbarton lakes. The fighting here was severe and at latest reports Was still raging on the right In the neighborhood of Tower Hamlets, which have been the scene of almost contin uous strife since the offensive began. FERLIN'. via London. Sept. 22.- Thirty-nine enemy airplanes were shot down on the western frontby the Ger mans on Thursday and Friday, army headquarters announced today. Three German machines -were lost. The British delivered attacks yes terday along the line from Langemarck to Hollebeke. These, the official state ment says, were repulsed.. This morn ing, local infantry engagements de veloped after an increase in the ar tillery fire. All these, it is stated, ended with success for the Germans. Progress of the War. IN the midst of Russia's Internal troubles has come' another German stroke on the Russian northern front, resulting in the capture of the bridge heat! and town of Jacobstadt. on the Tvina, and the enforced retirement of the Russians to the eastern bank of the river. - The Germans gained possession of new territory on a front of approxi mately 15 miles and six miles In depth, enabling them to push their lines to the wect bank of the vina in this area. They took only 400 prisoners, but gathered in 50 guns from the aban doned positions. Dramatic as this suddenly developed operation was. it seems unlikely to develop anything comparing in 1m lortance In its effect upon the generaj military situation with the desperate battle on the Flanders Coast. Loath to give up the valuable ridges the British wrested from them Thurs day, the Germans continue desperate counter attacks. This fighting has been very costly to the Germans, and the London official statement lays stress on their severe loaaes. The Herman command seems particu larly reluctant to surrender the alight rlevation west of Oheiuvelt. close to the Ypres-Mentn road. Fierce fighting developed there Saturday, the engage ments centering about the position known as Tower Hamlets. Press dis patches indicated that up to mid-afternoon there had been no cessation of the struggle, the tide of battle flowing bt-k and forth wlthtn a narrow area. Berlin's ofHcial statement makes no claim of any ground recovered from the British. It records the fighting of Friday, tbe day following the initial Hritish dash' a marked by continua tion of British attacks along the 3 gemarck-Hollebeke front. which were repultd, and describes Saturday's engagements as ff Khting of a local character which r suited In German kuccesses. Regarding the air fighting Thursday and Friday the customary comparison is g-tven by Berlin of Oerman and entente , losses In machines. Thirty nine hostile machines were sent down by the Germms, it Is declared, while only three Oerman machines were lost. This varies notably from the British official account, which mentions 1 0 German airplanes destroyed and six driven down out of control. The prob able loss of 10 British machines, classed aa missing, la admitted. Meanwhile, as a complement to the land fighting In Belgium. British war ships of the. Belgian Coast patrol have been bombarding. Ostend, where Ger man naval works were Bhelled with results pronounced satisfactory. Brit ish aviators continued their extensive bombing operations behind the German lines, Ostend being ne of the points successfully attacked by the aviators as well aa the feet. The complete text of the Oerman and Austrian replies to the papal peace note shows that neither lays down any definite terms as a basis for peace. There was no officially expressed com ment in 'Washington, but it was un officially Indicated that such examina tion as had been made of the docu ments revealed no reason for altera tion of the position of the United States, its aims or its intentions. - An official expression from the British Foreign Office pointed to the lack of any mention of "reparation" or "-restoration" In the German reply. TEUTONS TAKE BIG AREA RUSSIA ABANDONS WEST BAXK OF DVlA RIVER More Tfcaa 400 Prisoner and 50 Gnu Captured Petrosrad Cloaea Val- t rait lea to Save Coal. BERLIN, via London. Sept. 22. Ja cobstadt, on the Dvintt, has been rap tured by the German forces on the Rus sian front, togrether with the positions on a front of 25 miles and six miles deep on the west bank of the rtver, army headquarters announced today. Too Russians, after jrivin&r up their bridgehead and the terrain it protected, fled to the opposite bank of the Dvlna, leavlnir Jacobstadt in Oerman hands, together with more than 400 prisoners and more than 50 guns. PETROGRAD. Sept. 22. Russian troops on the Riga front have retired to the riht bank of the Lvina River, in the region of Jacobstadt. it was of ficially announced today, by the Rus sian War Office. By a decree of the provisional gov ernment, M. Nikitine, Minister of Posts and Telegraphs In the Kerensky cabi net, has been appointed Minister of the Interior. He will also retain his pres ent portfolio. All the universities here except the medical schools have been closed for a year, commencing- today, in pursuance of a plan to evacuate the unnecessary proportion of the population In Petro grad. Plans are being perfected for the re moval of some government departments to other points, but this entirely pre cautionary measure does not necessar ily mean an immediate removal. JAPANESE OFFER CONTRACT Portland Firm Asks Permission of . Board to Accept Work. OP.EGOXIAN NEWS BUREAU, -Washington. Sept. 22. Senator McN'ary to day laid before the Shipping Board a telegram from Portland saying Mitsui & Co., a large Japanese concern, will award contracts for wooden vessels to the Columbia Engineering AVorW. of Portland, if the board will allow the vessels to take out Japanese registry when completed. This is contrary to the board's policy. Senator McN'ary Is-- urging (the re quest to be granted, especially as the Shipping Board is not now ready to place its own. contracts with this yard. KAMCHATKA MAY EE SOLD Sale by . Russia to Americans Re ported as Pending. . PETROGRAD. Sept. 22. The Russ kia Volia says that a strong rumor was circulated yesterday that the Rus sian government intends to sell the peninsula of Kamchatka, on the north eastern coast of Siberia, to Americans. The -report said that Americans were offering several billions of roubles for the territory. The project is prompted by the financial difficulties of the treasury and the desire of the government not to increase the national debt. ULTIMATUM SENT BERLIN (Continued From First Pas;e.) terise as disloyal and impolite Count von Luxburg's conduct and find justi fication for .the attitude of the Senate. In their view the Argentine Senate's action indicates that solidarity ought to exist among the American nations for the defense of their dignity and honor. Once Was Enough Yesterday the manager of The Oregonian Want Ad Page al most lost a customer for one of the telephone companies. He shouldhave known what would happen, and he has been proper ly castigated. It was like this: The owner of trie property at 170 East Thirty-eighth street wanted to rent the bungalow, and placed a little three-line ad in the want page of The Ore gonian. It was a nice little ad, and described the place in a few words. Yesterday The Oregonian man called up the owner and made inquiry a to running the ad a second time. "Heavens, no! replied the lady of the house. "It was rented the first thing this morn ing. I have done nothing but answer this telephone all day." Knowing the pulling power of an Oregonian want ad .and that it is read in more homes than it would be if printed in any other paper, the manager should have known better than to make such a break. Already is the want ad sec tion of The Oregonian doing its bit for the country while the war rages. Day after day it is providing employes for the busy men of this city who have not the time to run about hunting men and women to fill up their forces. The want ad gets 'em. DIVERS POUriCE Oil AND SINK 7 CRAFT Fleet of 5 Steamers and 2 De stroyers Victims Off the Coast of Ireland. 2 U-BOATS REPORTED SUNK Passengers From Europe Also Tell of Destruction of Minnehaha, Which "Went Down In. Foue Minutes; 43 Lose Torres. AX ATLANTIC PORT. Sept. 32. Pas sengers who arrived from England to day on an American steamship brought circumstantial reports that five British steamships and two destroyers out of a convoy fleet of six which left Lough Swilly, Ireland, September 3. were sunk by a German submarine within a lew hours of the port of departure. The story was told among others by shipwrecked seamen who were sur vivors of other submarined vessels and by the merchant ship officer who had been in Lough Swilly. The five vessels, it was said, con voyed by the destroyers, put to sea after midnight and they were attacked by massed submarines the following morning at daylight. News of the dis aster was learned when the destroyers which escaped put back to port bring ing survivors of the torpedoed mer chantmen and war vessels. Secrecy la Maintained. "The closest secrecy Immediately was thrown about the Incident," the mer chant ship officer said. 'The survivors were given positive Instructions to say nothing about it, and no details as to the names of the ships or the extent of loss of life could be learned. It was re ported that one and possibly two of the U-boats were sunk by the destroyers." The big Atlantic transport liner Min nehaha, sunk by a German submarine September 7, went down in four mlnutea after being torpedoed, according to Harry Clark, a veterinary surgeon who arrived here today. Mr. Clark said the sinking occurred in Mantry Bay. He learned the story from survivors. Tales of heroism by Captain Frank Claret, commander of the Minnehaha, and other officers were related by survivors, Mr. Clark said. Chief Offi cer Albany died while aiding mem bers of the crew struggling in the water after he had given his life belt to a disabled fireman. C. A. Wills, purser, was crushed to death between a lifeboat and the side of the ship. Captain Claret, Mr. Clark said, res cued several men by plunging over board and swimming with them to safety. He desisted only when over come by exhaustion and was rescued. Mr. Clark confirmed cable reports of loss of life, saying the deaths num bered 43. Eight of Caracas Crew Die. Several survivors of the crew of the Norwegian motorschooner Caracas, which left Philadelphia the latter part of August for Spain, also arrived here today. They told of their vessel being destroyed by a Oerman submarine, September 2, In the Bay of Biscay, with the possible loss of eight of her crew. The British steamship La Nagra, on her way from Buenos Aires to Havre with a cargo of Argentine beef, was sunk by a German submarine. Septem ber 3, 45 miles off Plymouth, according to survivors "of the crew who arrived here today on an American steamship. La Nagra, 8312 tons gross, was owned by the British & Argentine Steam Navigation Company, of West Hartle pool. She was torpedoed twice within three hours, the survivors said, and eight members of her crew of 88 lost their lives. OFFICIALS ARE OPTIMISTIC Submarine Situation Said to Be Fairly Under Control. WASHINGTON, Sept.' 22. Unless some new outbreak of submarine ac tivity develops, many officials are sat isfied that the situation is fairly well under control. Encouraging results have been obtained through convoying of fleets of merchant craft, the loss having been reduced to less than one half of 1 per cent The employment of smoke screens, kite balloons and other detection de vices also has shown good results and progress is being made with the re duction of Bmpke from merchantmen and by painting ships to make them almost invisible at a distance through a periscope. In discussing submarine conditions today Admiral Benson, chief of naval operations and acting secretary In the absence of Secretary Daniels, indicated the Department's intentions to make known more" of the accomplishments hereafter. Admiral " Benson said the Department had been unable to find any support for reports that German submarines either had begun opera tions off the American coast or were preparing to do so. The Department, however, is ready- for any emergency. RICH CARGO FIRE DAMAGED Cotton, CUs and Whisky Worth Mil lion Reported Ruined. NEW TORK, pt. 22. The eargro of the Swedish steamship Mas da, an chored n the Hudson River here, was badly damaged tonight by fire, said to have been caused ,by spontaneous combustion. The flames, which started In the forward hold, spread to other parts -'of the vessel - and were still smouldering at a. late hour. Captain Kisrrmtn expressed fear that the whole cargro of cotton, oils, whisky and merchandise mlpht be ruined. The cargo in satd to have been insured for Sl.000.000. The vessel has been held up here several weeks awaitinc clearance papers for Gothenburg:. MOLDERS UPHOLD GOMPERS Referendum on Eight-Hour Day Or dered by Convention. BOTHrSTEIL N. T Sent. "" Th. resolutions committee of the Interna tional Molders" Union of North America today favorably reported a resolution calling for a referendum vote on the Question of an eiarht-hour day for mold era in the United States. Canada and Panama. By a vote that lacked one of being unanimous, the ' convention last night voiced approval of the war policies of Samuel tiompers. president of the American Federation of Labor, and cen sured 'charges that President Gomperi bad misrepresented labor. Ohio Society to Elect. The Ohio Society will meet Tuesday night at the Portland Hotel. There will be an election of officers, dancing, cards and refreshments. There are only two kinds of people who will not buy. these Rugs. 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The baby still rests in a temporary grav lent to the Funks by a friend. Judge Anderson held that as Ion? as Welch & Co. is a private corporation, not Invested with the power of emi nent domain, and thereby not charged with a public duty, it cannot be com pelled to sell property, whether used for cemetery purposes or not. and is privileged to do what it pleases with all property In its possession. Right ef Onsen Upheld. "Whenever a cemetery Is owned by a municipality, corporation or by a cor poration that has been granted the power of eminent domain, the public has an Interest in Its property, and such 1- not realize places the entire outfit of 22 pieces in your home. Balance arranged to fit your individual con venience. - Living -Room Set n-,I,f A Handsome Ivory Kll $39.95 juicij. Enamel Bedroom Set. town. Five pieces exact $59.75 a corporation Is by law bound to serve the publit; impartially," Judge Ander son said in his opinion. "The fact that the business is of such a character that it concerns the public and that a cemetery is devoted to a public purpose does not alter the status of the defendant corporation or of the plaintiff's. "The right of property ownership and freedom of contract Is unassailable, even though It may at times be abused." Victory May Be Costly. Judge Anderson's ruling concluded n the courts a controversy that has aroused great interest In Baker. Since refusal by Welch & Company to sell Mr. Funk a grave, a host of people who own lots In the cemetery and several lodges have offered West & Company the use of their plots. Thus, despite the fact that the cemetery in question is the only one in Baker, Mr. West will have the use of enough lota to keep him supplied for a long time. Moreover, the tax collector said to night that since the court holds Welch c Company a private corporation, taxes must be paid hereafter on all tin sold lots, and the matter of collecting back taxes that have accrued for more than seven years Is now under discus sion. If the county succeeds in as sessing the property and getting the back taxes. Welch or Company will have paid dearly for their victory. The case has given rise to sugges tions here that a bill be introduced at the next session of the Legislature to place all cemetery owner under the jurisdiction of the Public Service Com mission. 24,000 CHINESE MAY GO Financing Alone Prevents Sending Troops to Battle Front. PEKIN', Eept. 17. (Delayed.) The President and the cabinet have agreed to the plan of sending a trial division of 14.000 Chinese soldiers to France If money, equipment and shipping are available. The entente allies have ap proved the proposition and France is eager to receive the contingent. 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