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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND," OCTOBER 13, 1918. n i FORCES FIGHT liJ MACEDONIA 5000 Jugo-Slavs From United States "Doing Their Bit." CANADA PROVIDED CHANCE Volunteers Enlisted in Dominion, Joined Serbians' Camp at Bizerta and Have Since AVon Glory. WASHINGTON, Oct. 12. (Special.) General Misich. and his Serbs have crossed the Vardar. In one of those amazing combinations of tactics, march ing and mountain fighting which. In 1915, overwhelmed Austria in north ern Serbia, a handful of divisions have now been carrying all before them in the south. And everyone in America has just one wish, that we were with them, says the committee of public in formation. Well, we are. America is represent ed In Macedonia, too. It has its brl gade, 5000 ghters from Cleveland and icago, Seattle and hr l Diego. Their names may not Pittsburg, St. Louis, Chic and FfL Diego. Their nar preciTF'v be ''American names, as we still insist on using the term. And the 5000 may not, to tell the truth, be nat uralized Americans. But what is that between friends? They are there and fighting. Just now that is tjie main thing. Legally, most of them are citizens of Austria. But they aren't citizens who love their mother, or stepmother, coun try. They are "Jugoslavs," Croats and Slovenes and Austrian Serbs; in Amer ica there are virtually no Serbs from Serbia proper. And they began to sail for Europe long before we entered the war. You may remember that Ambassa dor Dumba complained constantly that we were permitting . recruiting against his unoffending country. There was no recruiting. The first members of Austria-Hungary's subject races were merely returning as individuals to make war on her alone. Few Inducements Offered Few inducements were offered them. Tf they were captured they knew that they would assuredly be hanged. By her own confession Austria has just made a wholesale execution of captured Jugoslavs on the Italian front. "Whether they fought in the armies of France, Italy or Serbia, their pay would be ex actly one cent a day, with the initial privilege, if they had the money, of paying their own way to Europe. Many of them who sailed from New York direct, did this. For the majority. though, their first step was to journey quietly across he border into Canada, If the United States wasn't at war with Austria, Canada was. Once he had reached Canada, any Croat, or Slovene or Austrian Serb could reasonably trust that 'there would be someone, there to understand and do the rest. And there I was. Very soon Serbia and Jugoslav officers were being brought over from Europe. Two training camps were established, at Levis, in Quebec, and at Sussex, New Brunswick. They were adjacent both to the border- and the transports. Within a few months 2000 American-Canadian-Jugoslavs were uniforms. And by the time they had had their preliminary training others were waiting to take their place. More than 1000 are at Levis now. Mean while the nucleus of this new army had been taking its second step. It was being moved across to Africa, to the great French assembly camp at Bizerta. At Bizerta 100,000 Serbians, all who were left of Serbia's old army, were resting and training anew. And the volunteers from America trained with them. They were given their course in intense tactics. An officers' school gave the best of them the chance to win Serbian commissions. And pres ently a division, or what remained of it, the Iljfcision of the Vardar, was filled out to full strength and renamed the "Jugoslav." Of its 15,000 men, about 10.000 had formerly been prison ers in Russia, and had worked their way to the English ships i.t Archangel. The other 5000 were "Americans." In due course they had a chance to take the third step in their journey, to Sa loniki. And they have been winning glory ever since. We English-speaking Americans have not heard much about them. But there are 750,000 Jugoslavs in the United States who have. Where we have had our Lufberys and Putnams and Quentin Roosevelts, they have had their Mances and Kovacs and Trosts the bravest of the brave on the Cerna front. Captain Trost was a New York bank .clerk. Louis Adamich, anbther hero, was a clerk in Cleveland. Lieutenant Frank Kovac was making money in Pitts burg till he saw his opportunity to do something better. All America will know of these men sometime. The Jugoslav division was assigned the place of honor and difficulty in the last advance, the position before Kosiak Mountain. And in a few hours they carried it by storm. "I don't know how they did it," says an English attache, just back from the Saloniki front, "but they did." So there you are. What is more, the members of that Jugoslav division have, apparently had their wish in another way. They didn't go to Europe to fight Bulgaria. They went to fight Austria. And, once they had made the first break through, they found themselves a part of tha:. army which was swung westward against Prilep. Which is where the Austrians are, and the Germans. . And for our "Americans" under General Misich, they are all the came. ELECTRIC CHARGES Clothing Given for Belgians. ' CHEHALIS, Was.. Oct. '12. (Special.)-: Many, tons of good clothing, the gift of Chehalis and other local peo ple to the Belgian relief cause, have been packed into boxes for immediate shipment to Europe. Even Expert Gets Mixed on Kilowatt Calculations. CITY SERVICES COMPARED Rates in Portland Are Shown to Be Both Higher and Lower Than Charges in Seattle. W. A. Hall, contract agent and rate expert of the Seattle municipal electric plant, appearing as a witness in the hearing on electric power rates before the Public Service Commission of Ore gon, yesterday testified that Seattle rates for electric current are lowe.r than rates for similar service in Port land, but upon cross-examination re versed himself. He did show, however, that there is a slight variation in borne rates in favor of Seattle and in o'.her special rates in favor of Portland, and that on the whole Portland rates are lower. . When shown that he had erred in his calculations he frankly admitted his mistake. He showed that on a con sumption of power amounting to 12.000 kilowat hours per month the charge in Portland would be and in Seat tle $204. Marked Contrast Showa. On cross-examination Mr. Hall was given the rate and consumption of the Selling building as an example for of fice building comparison of rates In the t.wo cities. This showed that wtiile the charge in Portland is 1421 it would be $586 for an equal amount of current in Seattle. Edward W. Cousin, traffic expert of the city, occupied the stand nearly all the afternoon, protesting against the proposed increase in rates. The traffic expert justified his protest by declaring that in its decision in the six-cent streetcar fare case the Public Service Commission held that the city of Port land offered no objection to the fare increase, and that he was employed to oppose further increases in rates. Fictitious Valors A I leered. In direct testimony Mr. Cousin con tended thut rates are as high as they should be, and pointed out what he termed "fictitious values," but on cross-examination declined to say how he arrived at his conclusions. In answer to a question by Assistant City Attorney 7mlinson Mr. Cousin said that he was not an electrical en gineer. He refused to answer directly questions nskpri in cross-examination by President Griffith, of the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company, as to whether he was qualified to com pute rates for electric power. Hearing; Is Adjourned. . Commissioner Fred O. Buchtel pre sided at the hearing, sitting with Com missioner H. H. Corey. Ij. was expected that the testimony Would be concluded last night, but Attorney Tcmlinson said he desired to introduce one more wit ness. Accordingly the hearing was ad journed until 9:30 o'clock Monday morning. It will be two to three weeks before the Public Service Commission renders a decision. FILM AGENCIES TO CLOSE Picture Houses Cancel Orders as Re sult of Epidemic. Orders were received Friday by the Universal film exchanges of Portland, Seattle and Spokane, of which Sol Baum, of Portland, is district manager, dosing the exchanges until after the ban imposed by the Spanish Influenza has been lifted from motion picture houses. 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