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Jittf itg Jjjg 0m$mm 82 Pages SixSections VOL. XXXVII XO. 17. PORTLAND, OKEGOX, SUXDAY MORMNG. APRIL 28. 1918. PRICE FIVE CENTS. Section One Pages lto22 ALLIES HALT FOE 111 YPRESSECTO R Immediate Big Success for Huns Blocked. YFRES SALIENT IWKWMD British Withdrawal From Area , Dominated by Mont Kemmel c to North Is Suggested. LINE FIRM NEAR AMIENS British and French Progress Between Villers-Bretonneux K and Hangard Village. PARIS, April 27. "There was no infantry action during the coarse of the day," says the War Office an noancement tonight. "The artillery fighting was maintained in spirited fashion south of the Sam me and on both sides of the Avre. There were violent bombardments in the region of Lafaux and the front of Caurieres wood and Chambrettes." (By the Associated Presa By one of those "back-to-the-wall stands for which they have been fa mous in this war, the Franco-British forces have saved the situation in the Tpres sector from turning into an im mediate big success for the Germans after the loss by the allied forces of the dominating peak of Kemmel. Had the enemy been able at once to develop his success in the Kemmel sector, as he attempted to do, the re sult probably would have been dis astrous to the allied troops in the Ypres salient. The British, however, held firm against the attacks which lasted all day south in the neighbor hood of Voormezeele, two miles south of Tpres, and the French were equal It firm in defending: the line in the sector of Locre, west of Kemmel, pro-1 tected by the heights of Mont Rouge and Seheroenberr. - Allies Prepare Defenses. Thus the enemy was brought to a standstill for the time being, and Sat urday morning did not bring with it the resumption of his infantry at tack. Be was assumed to be prepar ing for a renewal of the assault, how ever, while the Anglo-French forces were establishing themselves more firmly for the defense of the hill posi tions lying back of Mount Kemmel, at which, it is said, General von Arnim, commanding the German army in the Tpres sector, will next strike. The nest day or two probably will decide whether the allied command win attempt to cling to Ypres and the salient which encircles it in the face of the threat to the immediate rear of the Tpres positions. A British withdrawal from the salient has been predicted by many of the military ob servers, although the British War Office has declared such a move was not necessarily forced by the loss of Mount Kemmel. The military situation in Flanders. iConclud4 on fese . Column IRMA BELL KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENT CAR ROLLS DOWX 20-FOOT BXSK OX COLUMBIA HIGHWAY. Joseph Echart, Soldier at Vancou ver, Florence McElroy and Mrs. A. Kohlcr Sustain Braises. Miss lrma Bell, a computing clerk for the Forestry Service, was killed on the Columbia Highway last night la an automobile accident, when a machine driven by Joseph Echart. a soldier. In which she wss riding, dashed off the road into a plowed Held. The other occupants of the car. three In number, suffered but minor bruises. Echart had Just taken ths wheel when he saw an autolst fixing a tire. "I wonder If he needs any assist ance, ha remarked. There was a crash, as the machine tore into the fence and over a 20-foot bank. Echart wrestled with the wheel tut succeeded only In turning the car broadside on and it rolled over and over, coming to rest in the field, with the front seat pinning Miss Bell to the ground. She succumbed a" few mo ments later. L. M. Thlelen waa the owner of the car. in which were riding, besides Miss Bell and Echart. Florence McElroy, 954 Gladstone, and Mrs. A. Kohler, who lives at the Sisters of Mercy Home. SIX' teenth and Couch, where Miss Bell also resided. The car went over the bank three miles east of Falrvlew and close to the Multnomah County Poor Farm, where the dead woman and her companions were taken. Echart Is in the 4:5th Construction Squadron at Vancouver Barracks. Thle len lives at 1040 East Washington. Miss Bell was a member of the First Presbyterian Church. Dr. John H. Boyd said last night that Miss Bell waa alone In the city, having lost her. mother two years ago. She came to Portland from Washington. D. C. being transferred by the Forestry Service. BRITISH RAIDERS PRAISED liter-Allied Council Admires In- trepld Daring Shown. PARIS, April. 27. The inter-allied naval council, which concluded Its sit tings this afternoon, mads Important decisions with a view to obtaining closer collaboration between the allied naval forces and intensifying their joint action. Georges Leyguea, French Minister of Marine, proposed the fol lowing resolution, which was adopted "The Inter-allied naval council ex presses Its admiration for the collness, daring and splendid courage displayed or the British navy In the attacks on Oetend and Zeebrnggs and for the ra pldlty with which It gained Its oblec lives, despite the Immense difficulties of the enterprise and the desperate re slstanca of ths enemy. ALBANY SOLDIER PATRIOT "Franklin Miller, Now "Somewhere in France," Sends Money for Bond. ALBA NT, Or, April 17. (Special.) A subscription for a 150 liberty bond was received at local headquarters yes terday from Franklin Miller, a former Albany boy now serving with the old Third Oregon Infantry In France. In asmuch as It arrived on Liberty day, after Its long trip from ths battlefront, the letter aroused considerable Inter ests The young soldier Is a son of Frank J. Miller, an Albany man who Is now chairman of the Public Service Com mission of Oregon. Though he Is not yet 21 years of age. he now has 11000 Invested In liberty bonds and 1:50 In war savings stamps. ARCHBISHOP IRELAND LOW Prelate Is Expected to Survive but Short Time. ST. PAUL, April 27. At midnight to night tonight the condition of Arch bishop John Ireland waa grave, his physicians said His heart action has become extremely weak. Death may come within a few hours, or be may live several days. It wss announced. ,r SOME OUTSTANDING EVENTS IN THE PAST WEEK'S NEWS ARE INTERPRETED PICTORIALLY BY SALT TELLS TALE OF TEUTON RAIDER Cruise of Hun Scourge Wolf Related. CAPTAIN TAKEN ON PACIFIC Voyage From San Francisco Ends in German Prison. FICTIOfl OUTDONE BY FACT Kaiser's Captives Held In Veritable Hell, Says J. Stanley Cameron, Who Tells of Thrilling 10 Months' Experience. Herewith Is presented the first authentic narrative of the cruise ef the German sea raider Wolf. The story u told by w.n old alt. Captain John tanle Cameron, who waa a captive on the raider and subsequent ly on the prize ships Hitachi Idaru and Isota liende. Captain Cameron went to sea at the are of three. At 13 he wee eamlns his llvlns as an aoie-ooaied seaman, ana nas oeen i master ot aalllns vessels since he was 21 Five rears aso he took a sailing yacht of f ions rrom rw xora to ban rraneiaeo. he emailest vessel of her osss te 'beat through" the Straits of Magellan. Slnee then. Captain Cameron has retired from the sea until his last trip as master of the Beluga He is 84 rears old now. but Dre- macureiy gray. Captain Cameron'e narrative will be pub nsnta m instalments. BT CAPTAIN J. STANLEY CAMERON. Copyright, 191 s. by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York World.) Little did I dream when I sailed away from San Francisco in the little bark Beluga that I would finish my voyage not in Australia after a two months' trip, but in Denmark, the other side of ths world, after a ten months' experience that seldom has been equaled In seagoing history. My story could well be called "An Escape From the Jaws of Hell," for a prisoner's life In Germany under pres ent conditions is surely a hell on earth. During my six weeks' stay in Den mark I have interviewed neutral sail ors who have been sent out of Ger many, and old men who have gone out on passports because . of extreme old age; also prisoners who have escaped over the border into Denmark via the coal train route. These men. one and all, paint a picture of a prisoner's life In Germany as being a veritable helL We sailed from Sah Francisco on May IS. 1917. with a cargo ot 1S.000 cases of benslne for Sydney, Australia. After letting go the tugboat and getting sail on the ship, we settled down for a quiet and uneventful passage. Sel dom have I gone to sea under more favorable circumstances. A tight little vessel, a good deep-water crew of Scandinavian sailormen. plenty of good. wholesome provisions and a cook who knew his business. Both the first and second mates were officers of the old school, with years of experience, so it seemed that I was fortunate in getting so evenly balanced a crew, as. owing to the frenzied state of shipping along the Pacific Coast, a master was Indeed fortunate who found on getting to sea that half his crew could box the com pass, much less hand, reef and steer. Thirteen la Ship's Company. Even under these favorable circum stances there was a fly in the ointment. On counting noses, I made the discov ery that the entire ship's company amounted to II (an unlucky number as every salt will testify). A ship's crew of 11, counting myself, and two passengers my wife and little daugh ter. When I called this fact to my wife's attention she laughed at me, saying that was old sailors' tommyrot and that we were living in the 20th century and should have outgrown such lUy superstitions. Nevertheless, owing (Concluded on Page 17. Column 1.) INDEX OE TODAY'S NEWS j The W TESTERDAT0 Maximum temperature, T aegrees; minimum. e degrees. TODAY'S Fair; gentle winds, mostly west erly. - War. Allies halt Hua advance. Section I. pass i-Long-raoge sua bout In hope ef forcing ranee to peace, sectlos 1. page 4. Foreisa.' Son of former Caar of Russia proclaimed Ere poror. says report. Section 1. page 1 Holland grants some demands made by Ger many. Section 1. page 3- atadame Kollental. Weltare Minister ef Rus sia, remarkable woman. beet ion 1. page 7. Quebec unmoved by war crisis. 8ectlon 1. page e. - Irish conscription plan not likely te change. section 1. page 10. Several Western men qualify tor commis sions at officers' training camps, eeo tion 1. page 2. Prince Lechaowsky, ex -Germ an Ambassador to England, blames Germany for start ing war. Section 1. page s. Con for see disagree ea draft bill.' SeeUea 1. pace 0. . fashionable woman arrested as German spy. Section 1. page S. Overman blU will be passed Monday. Sec tion 1. pace a Seventy per cent of minimum of liberty loan assured, bectioa 1. page 10. Mooney. awaiting re-sentence to death, gains another respite. Section 1. page o. Captain Cameron, captive, tells of German i .mar v, ou. eccupn J. pas Output of paper mills menaced by shortage of fuel oil. Seouoa 1. page 9. May-day strikes called off. Section page 1. bporta. Baseball season ef Pacirto Coast Interns tlonal League to open Tuesday. Bectioa -i. page 1. Buekaroos win from Soldiers, B to 1. Sec tloa 2. page 3. Grammar School League ends successful sea son. section 2. page 2. Motorboat Club plans regatta May 30. Sec tion z, page z. Blewett optimistic about baseball outlook. Section z, page z. Jack King to stage boxing card Hay 10. Section 2, paga . Camp Lewis athletes break three records la meet. Section i. page a. Vancouver owner expects Beavers to be among leadera Section Z, page 3. Oregon trapshooting tournament to be held here In May. Section z, page . High School nines pussls fans. Bectioa 2, page 4. Interscholastlo track aspirants at wora. Section 2, page 4. . Double-header to be played at Vaughn-street park today. Section z, page a. Last merchandise shoot te be held today. Section 2, page 4. Portland Golf Club rating tournament to be played as usual. Section z. page o. Pacific Northwest. 8. B. Huston's name may stay on ballot. Sec tion 1. page S. Oswald West says appointment of Charles Schwab la blow to Nortnweet sup mau try. Section 1. page S. Washington court orders 5 -cent fare. Sec tion i. page a. Hoqulam mill workers are 100 per. cent loyal, section l. page a. Military police to aid In enforcing prohibi tion law. section z, pace a. Commercial and Marine. Potato surplus Is cleaning up In Northwest ern states, asocuon l. page w. Stock market rallies alter numerous early losses. Section 1, page -'. Corn sharply lower, owing to Food Adminis tration ruling, secuon x. page -u. Steamer Astoria launched with appropriate ceremonies. ' beocion z. page .x. Pert land and Vicinity, Portland bids ber 2S5 soldiers godspeed. Section 1. page 1. Jury In Julius Rbuberg case unable to scree. Section 1. page ii. Mavor Ilarley. of Astoria, says he'll win Governorship If all who've : bad drink since state went dry vote for him. - Seo- tion 1. page lo. - Sarah J. Henson says husband would est rid of ber so as to wea younger woman Section i. pace IS.. Opportunity for writers now as ' good as ever, ssys Maryland Allen. Section X. page 12. Thrift stamp sale shows healthy reaction. Section 1. page 18. Knitting machine benefit to be held Tues day evening In Auditorium.' Section 1. page 12. Big crowd pays honor to flag on Liberty day In Portland demonstration. Section 1, page 18. Lieutenant Paul Ferlgord to address Oregon War Conference. Section 1, page 15. Cloffl's celebrated band to play at the Oaks this season. Section 1. page 13. Girls Polytechnic School plsced on practi cal war basis. Section 1. page 12. T. M. C A. to Inject social features Into shipyard life. Section 1. page IS. Vista House, at Crown Point, to be dedicated Sunday. Section 1. page IS. Irma Bell killed m auto crush on Columbia Highway. Section 1. page 1. Weather report, data and forecast. Section 2. pace 6. Central Labor Council again to debate Car man's union matter. Section 1, page 7. Honor flags here for distribution. Section 1, paga 10. Snow Falls In South Dakota. SIOUX FALLS. S. D., April 27. A thick, heavy snow started falling here shortly before midnight. The tempera ture was 26 degrees above zero. ROMANOFF, JR., IN SADDLE IS REPORT Counter Revolution on in Petrograd. GRAND DUKE ACTUAL POWER News of Proclamation. Is Re ceived in Danish Capital. MUCH RIOTING REPORTED Dynasty Legally Ended in 1917, When Nicholas Renounced Suc cession for His Son and Mich ael Himself Abdicated. LONDON. April 27. A dispatch from Copenhagen to the Exchange Telegraph says it is reported that a counter revo- lutlon has broken out in Petrograd. It reports that while no telegrams have been received from Petrograd for sev eral days, there are rumors from Fin land that there is serious rioting at the capital and that the rumor is persistent that Grand Duke Alexis Nikolalevltch has been proclaimed Emperor and that Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovltcb. is the real leader in Russian affairs. COPENHAGEN, April 27. The Stock holm Aftonbladet says that definite re ports have been received from Abo, Finland, that Grand Duke Alexis Niko laievitch, son of the former Emperor of Russia, has been proclaimed Em peror, with Grand Duke Michael Alex androvltcn as regent. When Emperor Nicholas abdicated the Russian throne at midnight, March 15, 1917, he also renounced succession to the crown of his son. Grand Puke Alexis, in favor of Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovltcb. Michael Also Abdicates. Ths next afternoon Grand Duke Michael himself abdicated, . thus bringing the Romanoff ttvuasty to an end.. Where the proclamation re ferred to In the foregoing report was issued is not apparent from the Co penhagen dispatch. . ... - HARBIN, Sunday, April 21. (By the Associated Press.) The political- situ ation in. Siberia has been complicated during ' the last -week by claims for recognition by the entente allies made by the rival Russian factions, each to the exclusion of 'the others.' The de parture for Pekin of Lieutenant-Gen eral Horvath. military commander here. has caused alarm in Siberian govern mental,' representative and Socialist groups, who fear that he intends to ask for allied assistance In support of dictatorship. Dictatorship , Wanted. At least two factions have asked allied representatives to notify their governments that the establishment of dictatorship will be deeply resented in Siberia. The apparent reluctance of the allied governments to intervene against the Bolshevikl has caused sev eral factions to feel that the only hope of securing allied support lies in their coalition into a single political or ganization without party lines and de voted to restoring order in Siberia un der a republican form of government and re-establishing Russia in' the war or at least overthrowing German In fluence in Siberia. A former member of the Russian Duma has gone to Tokio to appeal for allied aid, and another delegate has started for Pekin to thwart the efforts f the Horvath faction in the direction of a dictatorship and at the same time to pledge the support of the Siberian government to General Horvath, pro vided popular government be guaran teed. Bolshevik atrocities at Blagoviest- (Concluded on Page 2. Column 2., MAY DAY STRIKES ARE CALLED OFF GERMAN LABOR DAY, IT IS AX XOTJNCED, IS MAT 1. Demonstration at That Time Slight Be Interpreted by Prnsian Press as an Anti-War Move. BUTTE, Mont, April 27. The Work Ingmen's Union of Butte, which last week voted to loin In the strike May 1 as a protest against the Mooney sen tence, today rescinded their action after it had been called to their attention that May 1 is the German Labor day and that a strike at that time would bo Interpreted by the Prussian press as an anti-war, move. - Speakers declared that the Prussians would publish the Interpretation far and wide to hearten the army. WASHINGTON, April 27. An effort to prevent the Nation-wide strike of paper-mill workers called for May 1 will be made by the National War Labor Board when It meets Monday, . Ha. .4 1 J. . I 1 members of the board announced today. The presont wage scale expires May 1 and negotiations for a new scale have been retarded by discussion of a price for print paper, which is to be fixed by the trade commission. MINNEAPOLIS, April 27. The pro posed one-day strike May 1 by local labor unions as a protest against the death sentence imposed on Thomas J. Mooney, has been called off, it was an nounced today. After every local of the Minneapolis Trades and Labor' Assembly had voted to strike, the matter was reconsidered according to James Stark, secretary of the assembly committee. "The war situation and necessity of disrupting American industry as little possible led to our decision," he said. SEA RAID CASUALTIES 588 Sixteen Officers and 144 Men Killed at Zeebrugge and Ostend. LONDON, April 27. Ths total British casualties in the operations on Tues day aginst Zeebrugge and Ostend were S88, according to an official announce ment tonight. These were divided as follows: Officers killed 16, died of wounds J missing 2, wounded 29. Men killed 144, died of wounds 25, missing 14, wounded 35S. FREE BATHS FOR SOLDIERS San Francisco Hotels to Let Uncle Sam's Boys Use Tubs at Will. SAN FRANCISCO, April 27. Free tub baths, lncludingsoap and towels, to all soldiers or sailors -who apply, were being given today by 21 leading hotels of San Francisco through the war camp community service.- The baths will be given at all times hereafter to soldiers and sailors. - INTERNED STEAMER SUNK Prlns Eltel Friedrich Bnrned . . Anchor In Colombia Port. at BOGOTA, Colombia. April 26. The German steamer Prlns Eltel Freiderich, which has been Interned at Puerto Co lombia, was burned and sunk at her anchorage there today. The steamer was owned by the Hamburg-American Line and displaced 4660 tons. FAIR SKIES PREDICTED Temperatures for Week Will Be Slightly Below Normal. WASHINGTON, April 27. Weather predictions for the week beginning Monday Issued by the weather bureau today are: Pacific State!! Fair, with tempera tures slightly below normaL CARTOONIST REYNOLDS. N Portland Bids Her 295 Soldiers Godspeed. SPIRIT OF SACRIFICE FELT Thrill of . Patriotic Devotion to , Liberty Uppermost. DR. BOYD PAYS TRIBUTE W , . ' i nmer extend to Newly- Accepted ' Troops . Good Wishes. -Hearty Appreciation and Deep Regard of Community. . Through a long, sympathetic, -responsive lane of humanity marched those squads of virile youth, cheerily bearing the responsibility from that hour ot carrying the honor of Oregon on bat tlefields across the seas. At its farther end that lane, though cleared by burly policemen, was dis rupted in a twinkling, for there was Joe, or Arthur, or Harry, swinging down that line, and where in free America was that power which would deny the farewell handclasp, the last tender embrace? 1 Spirit of Sacrifice Felt. . Short, Indeed, the minutes until the train crept slowly forward, bearing away to Army. camp those sturdy sons who answered grim war's demands, but not too' brief to disclose that noble spirit of sacrifice of those who stayed ' and that glorious determination to fight and win of those who went. Tears there were, perforce, but back of all and beneath all was evinced the thrill of patriotic devotion to those things man holds dearest. It was a wonderful demonstration the people of Portland made in bid ding godspeed to the 295 men selected from Multnomah County to - enter at this time the military forces of the Nation. . Long in the breasts of the honored guests must the memories of the occasion linger. Nor were the les sons of the" day lost on those who aided as hosts, nor yet on those who merely saw and heard. ' Dr. Boyd Pars Trlbate to Men.' ' It was at 11 o'clock that the great multitude of citizenry and., those in whose welfare they felt an Interest as sembled before Liberty Temple. Mar tial, strains were discoursed by the bands, soloist and assemblage lifted voices In song, vital messages of the hour were tersely given. We honor you for your' splendid physical strength," declared. Dr. John H. Boyd to the men grouped before him. "We honor you for your noblo manhood which finds expression in your able characters. ,Our, own love and that of those dear to you will bind you to us in the tenderest ties. In our thoughts you are consecrated to the holy cause to which our country has committed itself. Outraged World la Shown. The treasures of civilization, slowly and painfully accumulated are in dan ger our Nation's humanity and gentle ness, the world's future quietude and peace. In your souls you should see an. outraged world, -an Insulted republic, the prostrate sister. France; the vio lated mother and, bearing your arms, you should strike as only free men can strike." With characteristic - spontaniety Mayor George L. Baker extended to the newly-accepted-' soldiery the good wishes, the hearty appreciation and the deep regard borne by the communitv for them. "The neople of Oregon are 100 per cent right in motive and act. They are 100 v per cent right in the men tney (Concluded on- Pago 14. Column 1.) OREGON YOUNG ME BEAR HONOR ABROAD