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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, FORTXAXD, 3IARCII 10, 1918. '!.: . i lot I" I ' ! i i U. S. IS DOING BIG THINGS FRANCE IVar Machine Now Being Built Up Is Declared Some thing Titanic. AMERICAN PRIDE JUSTIFIED ::: ::: i: ... j.i. c: If Crrmin General Staff Could tee flint Thj Are Vp Acainsl 71irr Would n Loader HowU lor Pear,' Saj .MicRie. v.- It widelr e-attered. At this hradquar 'n the command la ecettered In amall e.iachmnt tor to or mllea around. T this rimni. with Ita mn and ffleera from my town and those the Ferlrrient Inherited from the district thn the organisation went to the new war strength, la stationed at on of tha meet Important hese ramps In Kranee. rme of tha offlrera ara away to school, others expect to so soon. At present tha rectm.nt Is furnishing; tha provost and military police for tha town. 'watch, by tha way. la one of tha fon 'rt ef(le in ra-e. tnea apoa a tima It waa an Enallsh city. I have len told that tlreat Britain ruled thinsa her for years or waa years aro? Bl Tatace Betas Daa. At any rata. It la here that T'nela ram la a-ertrrttshlri a-v-at thlna-a on a tola- scale. Mind you. this la only ona el the many places the American Oo emment Is doma- and ha already dona t.tsnic thlnca. rest assured. And be reuse so many mil's separate tha Asert-art War Iepartment In Franca and that Institution whlrh beara a like name In America, there la mlshty Utile red tapa to clutter and mull thlnca up la tha work that la (roina on over her. lrhapo that la why all tha work Is Mint so wall dne and with such speed and drtye. Virtually. American cities. American railroads In short, the pros; resa over ll ere all tends tor I he upkeep. tha comfort and safety r those who are already on tha irround and for tha millions that ara to come. What Is BTolna on at this town la not tha only section in rranca whera blc American events ara takme- plc. Tha mora ona ace of these tbtnes and tha scale upon whirl, all la beinc done, the mora ona wishes lh Herman nral staff could sea what they ara up aaalnet. now that I ncle Ham la In tha came. There would more and louder howls lor peace from cjermany than haa yet broken across tha deadline. If they knew. Aa on watches tha officers and men COtnc about thalr dutlea midst such a stirring scene, one may be pardoned If ona feela a ttahtenlnc of the vocal eorda and la prouder than ever of pe ine; an American. Then. too. added to thla thought S tha knowledge that tha soldiers you know and have been asso ciated wltn for so many months ara ' plunetna- in and dolnc their share. No wonder you folks at home are. havtna; lour meatless, wheatless and tireless l'i. franco had them all. and she la sun ery much alive. Kvery time a call comes back home for a renewed sacrifice, let that sacrifice be freely and happily made, for It means mora to our forces here In France than you can pose'Me realise at home. Hera In franca. If I read all signs clearly, and I think tha miles of travel 1 have done haa given me that opportunity to read, nothing la betnc left to chance, or. If there Is. it Is mighty little. It la the same with the training of our troops. Tha construction of docks, tha building of railroads and the erection of tha largest cold-storage plant In the world get thla large In the world, all tends to show that the building up of the great war machine la being conducted o tha aame roloaaal scale. Adaalafearter la I'afettered. It strikes one vary forcibly that hid den away from prying eyes of the rurloua there la a high-cUsa civil and military administrator1 one unfettered by meddlesome politicians and so far way that the American War Depart ment can't clog the wheels. The mysterious bands, whose ever they are. aeem to nave a tight hold en the many, many lines of soldier organisations and civilian Bolts that ara doing things overseas. . I have seen both tha Army and the butldera and rebuilders at work, and bare In thia war-worn land l the dreams realised of a man awake, for he and that mighty Army that works cheerfully with him ara weav ing the tapestries of the history to come, for. after all. all great wars have bee a won with forethought and prep aration. Of the fighting end 1 ran also see that every detail of the great war machine which la being built Is receiv ing adequate attention. Before any de cisive movement will be made each portion of that machine will be adapted, ao far aa human foresight ran provide, to perform Ita allotted task. All the preliminary work of tha atream of Incoming soldiers, while It'a miles away from the perceived Ideaa of a soldier s trslnlng. la all a part of the day a work. Training, aa I see It over here, la simply a game of progression, II leading to the main road the fight ing trenches. On tha day I visited the city where the regiment la atatlonad. the very first person I spied at the big depot waa a former Portland High richool lad. It seemed that It waa only yesterday that 1 met him on Washington street, his school cap tilted Jauntily on hla left ear. What a change: Hera he was. looking very war-like. Even when he aaw me. and tha light of recognition shone In his eyes, be never forgot for an Instant be waa a soldier. In a very business, like tone he said: "Where ara you going, air. w hen I told him I waa In eearch for tha home folks, he aatd: "Please register In this book If you're going to leave thia station." When I bad dona aa ha requested, then ha thawed a little and told roe where to I.nd headquarters. Oiefeslss la vVelewna. Mr. thst was a busy crew, whst there waa of them. About an hour after I arrived tha mall came and with It the New Tear' edition of The Oregonlan. Of course all grabbed for tha picture section. Guess what they aald and how they aald It when they aaw each photo graph aald tha old regiment waa now tha .National Army. Then they, one and all. saw tha humor of It and laughed, for there la nobody at homa that be longs to the old regiment that became a numbered organisation last Bummer In the big Army of the Vnlted States. Ona saving clause of the American character Is hla ability to aee some thing funny under the most trying clr cumatancea. The aoldlers saw humor, for tha captions under soma nam were credited to the regiment aa It waa numbered last Bummer. "I'll bet, r marked . soldier, "those guys have been made to feel uncomfortable more than once for having that honor thruat upon them. Tha Colonel of this regiment la camp commander, and It would La hard to even guesa how many thouaand troops, both military and civilian, he haa under hla command. Tat he enjoys the work, FIttE ixroiw ERVICH AXD .MATIO.V The Oregonlan haa established bureau of Information and serv ice at Washington City for the benefit of Ita readers. No charge la made for reply to any ques tion relating to (Governmental af fairs or for procuring any avail able Government publication. For reply aend J-rent stamp. Ad arena Frederio J. H a a k I n. director Oregonlan Information Hureau. Washington. l. C Lo NOT write to Tha oregonlan at I ortiand. for, aa railroad division superintend ent, be haa many men under Ma con trol. The old regiment Is by far more scattered than It waa last Hummer when they were guarding tunnels and rail road bridges. Yet the "old man keepa hla finger on every pulae and knowa to the hour what each unit la doing. Not only that, but the army of civilian em ployes know that he la on the Job, for there la the strictest kind of discipline throughout hla district. Before the coming of the regiment It waa all right for thoee laborers, even though they are dressed In Uncle Pant's uniform, to go about tha at reels of tha town with their coata open or without coat a. Not so now. Each man on the street haa his coat buttoned, and when he eees n officer he salutea like real sol dler. For tha most part these laborers are negroea, but there are also a great many white men. They are fighters. even though they do not carry rifles and fight In the trenches. They arc heroea with the real, for It Is they who make fighting by the real soldiers poa sible. And they are helping; to defeat Germany. Ma Fewad Cewteeted. While I waa atandlng at a corner trying to make peace with my mind In trying to solve a French poet-no-bills eign. two Alabama negroea stopped. They had Just saluted an officer. The one addressed aa Jcf said: Nigger, la dem offlc'ra tlgna all fixed but one?" "Nothln" doln fer me." aald the other, "la got 'em all fixed, b' dey done stay In raa head, I'a don' make oit what dat tall guy got on his ahould r. The Colonel waa standing In the door way. "Tea. I'se mean dem tin chickens; what fo' la dem T" Out where the men are billeted. I found the men of the regiment very well contented. Even better billeted than most men of the other regiment I had vlelted. They were only month behind In their malL In fact, some of hem received letters that day that had been mailed at homa January ?. I even found that they had more recent news from home than I bad. although they had left the. United Slates before I had and bad reached Franca after I had. They were about 1 days coming across. I seems that very few of them were seasick. Thia fact. It seems, fooled the ransport quartermaster. He had fig ured that most of our soldiers wnuld be like tha rest he had taken acroe would miss many meals. Anyway, the eata were ahort for a day or two. until hla niba got wlae to the fact that he had a lot of husky aoldlers on poara CAMPAIGN STARTS FOR SLAV REPUBLIC Bolshevik Regime to Go; Social Revolutionists Seize Their Chance for Coup. 2 RUSS TRANSPORTS SUNK German Destroyers Do Deadly Work in Flcht Off Aland Islands Trotzky and Lcnlno Denounce German Socialists. IXDON. March . The Social Bevo- Iutlonarlea have decided to organize national guard to overthrow the Hoi shevikt regime In Russia, according to If. fcleff. of Moscow University, who Is quoted In a Copenhagen dispatch to the exchange Telegraph aa saying that the decision waa reached at a recent con fcrenre In Moscow. A great army la being organised In be dlervatch adds. It is also planned to Introduce a repuhllo In Russia with I coalition government which would i not accept the German-Bolshevik peace. Bolahevlkl So as resa wa. Profesaor Eleff asserted that th newa of the new movement had been auppressed by the I'etrograd Bolshevik newa agency. LONDON, March t. Two Russian transports were attacked and sunk by German destroyers after a fight south of the Aland Inlands on Thuredav. cording to a Copenhagen dispatch to the exchange Telegraph Company. I IX)N'rON. March t. Premier Inlne nd Foreign Minister Trotsky are the aignera of a message sent out by the Russian government wireless ordering! the Bolshevik representative in -Sweden to have no dealings with the "German Socialist Imperialists.' artalsta Tersaed Strikebreakers. Tha message reads: 'We cannot negotiate with strike breaker auch Aa the partisans of I Ccheidemann (the German majority So cialist leader), who ara traitors to the working class' rtCTnooRAP, March ?. The Bolshe vik paper Pravda declares that In spite of the conclusion of peace the Ger mans did not suspend hostilities In th Oomel-Novo Zybkov sector. They ad vanecd there In order to gain strategi advantages for the consolidation o their front. A decree signed by Premier Inin announces the evacuation of the stat institutions at Petrograd. The people' commissioners are leaving today for Moscow, which Is to be the new Rus slan capital, at least temporarily. The commissioner of education. M. Lunaeharsky. will remain In Petrograd a the representative or the rovern ment and will be invested with extra ordinary powers. The official organs or the "Soviet, lz- vestia and Pravda will appear tomor row for the last time In Petrograd both will be published thereafter -a Moscow. The Petrograd papers confirm the re port of I'on TrotiVy's resignation as Foreign Minister. Ills duties will now fall upon his deputy. M. Tchitcherin. ROCMAXIA HAS MADE PEACE nesarabla to He Evacuated, Says One Conflicting Report. lONDON. March 9. Conclusion of kawaah RiimI. n H RAiimanlfl in n.i i,.,,,,, - 1 announced in a Ruw-ian wireless dls They got It. pronto. RALLY LED BY KOLCHAK fOetlnned Fmm Fleet Ps. of January 19, which haa Juat been re ceived here. The paper aaya that tha Japanese cruiser Mikado arrived on January 13 and waa followed by two more cruisers on January 14. Four thousand aoldlers were landed and Humbert of offlcera continued to arrive In Vladivostok dally, according to the newspaper. The Japanese Admiral assured the local workmen's and soldiers council that the arrival of tha ships and troops ahould not be ronaldered as the begin ning of military operations, but they were there to protect Japanese sub jects. Belabevtk Trees Welti Use. Th message to the Novaia Zhlxn saya the Vladivostok public waa alarmed creatly and that the revolutionary com- mltteea were concentrating Bolahevlk troops. Information concerning the reported entrance of British and Japanese rrula- era Into Vladivostok harbor waa naked of the British and Japanese Embassies patch received here today. Roumania promises to evacuate all of Besfnrabla, Including Fenderl. on the Dniester River. 40 miles southeast of Kishinev, within two months. Other provisions of the treaty are: "The evacuated-wlaces are to be occu pied permanently by Russian troops. Local authority will be Invented in looal self-governing bodies. In every town militia will be formed from the inhahi tants of that town for defense of the Interests of the population. "All Russian prisoners and all those I arrested for political reasons will be released An international commission with two Russian and two Roumanian rep resentatives will be created to take up polnta of conflict between the conn tries. Roumanla will have the right to leave detachments In Bessarabia for the defense of Roumanian property and Inhabitants residing there. A.MSTKRDAM. Friday, March S. Commenting on the treaty with Rou manla. the Berlin Tagblatt says the quadruple alliance has taken the stand point that the Bessarabian question must be aettled between Roumanla and Russia, but that the alliance has al ready Intimated that the union of Bessarabia with Roumanla would re ceive Its approval. Roumanla. adds the newspaper, must herself therefore In petrograd on January 10 by the Bol- wln Bl)d nold juiiaarabla and may keep shevfk government. The Japanese a aufflclent number of troops mob- Kmbaasy In Petrograd Immediately l-lnixd until she has ronquered Bessa- rahla and arranged for ita protection against the Russians. SUV COME-BACK PREDICTED HUMORS IN SPRING tarn mm Ptesplem. Beala, Eraptleaa aad 7 Wriksna, Lssiaer, Debility, Afflict thouaanda of people and seem to demand the use of a Spring; course f treatment without delay. i n 7 u . hi. u, in. ,v mmw ll ly cleanses the blood and effects radical - and permanent relief by perfecting the processes of absorption and elimlna - tion giving oea4hy activity to the stomach, liver, kidneys, bowela and akin. This good medicine purifies, enriches and revitalises the blood In Its own peculiar and unequaled way. It prompt ly relieves rheumatism, scrofulous trou bles and eciema. regulatea the kldneya and liver. It originated In a Boston rhyslclan's successful prescription, and enjoya high reputation aa a satisfac tory all-round family medicine. Accept no substitute, but Insist on having Ilood a raparilla. and get It today. It will do you sood. Adv. sued an offirial atatement denying that Japanese forcea had .been landed at Vladivostok. NEW YORK. March . A German ac count of the reported landing of Jap anese troops at Vladivostok In January confirmed the statement that American and British troops also were landed from warships of those nations. The report was contained In a dispatch un der Petrograd date printed In the Ber lin Tageblatt of January 30. The dls patch, translated from a copy of the Tageblatt received, reads M. C. A. Official Says American Type of Democracy Likely. XBW YORK. March 9. Pr. John R. Molt, general secretary of the Interna tional committee of the Y. M. C. A, In an address here today oji "Impressions of Russia" gained aa a member of the The English. American and Jap- special mission i headed by Elihu Root, anese warships which arrived In the harbor of Vladivostok have landed troops which have occupied not only the harbor, but also the entire city The Russian authorities were presented a note which had been algned by the Japanese t'nnsul-Oeneral at - Vladivo stok on behalf of the powers which oc cupied the city. The contents of the note was telegraphed to Petrograd.' Premier to Bo Elected VICTORIA. R C. March nouncement was made today that Government ta considering holding an election to fill the vacancy in Vic toria's legislative delegation caused by the death of H. C Brewster. Premier of British Columbia. Officials said It waa likely an early endeavor woftld be made soon to test public opinion on the selection of John Oliver as Premier. declared ha had "greater faith in Rus sia than ever" and that, although "much woe" must yet come, "Russia will In the end be swung into a democ racy such aa ours." Do not forget that the principles of the Russian revolution are those on which our own fabric Is builded." said Dr. Mott. "Another thing; do not for mrl that among all the men I talked to there was no Pro-German sentiment. Russians -do not wish to see their coun try under the domination of the cen- f. An-I tral powers. I do not believe this will the I come to pass. 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