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THE SUNDAY - OREGOXIAS FORTXAXD, XOVE3IBER 3. 1918. yUlfNGIENRES FULLS TO Advance . Swings on East of Important City. YANKS STIFFLY OPPOSED Taciric Coast Tnlt Goes Throngh Hardest Fighting in Advancing South, of Ghent, In Belgium. LONDON, Nov. 2. Further Important gains were made by the British troops east of Valenciennes. Field Marshal Haig reports from headquarters to night. The village of Marly was cap tured and British detachments entered St. Saulve. Field Marshal Haig also reports that Valenciennes -was taken by Canadian troops under General Currie. who have passed through the town. British Win High tiro and. The village of Preseau.' southeast of Valenciennes, was captured by the British this morning after they had seized the high ground In that region. WITH THE ALLIED FORCES IN FLANDERS, Nov. 2. (By the Associ ated Press.) The fighting which one American detachment encountered yes terday at Spitaalsbosschen wood, southeast of Waercghem, in Belgium, was probably the hardest it has expe rteced in the months it has been in France. This unit of "Westerners had come from a section of the line where it had seen some bitter engagements, but the Major who was leading the battalion which was outflanking the wood on th north, and who was wounded, told the Associated Press that the early stages of the battle yesterday were heavier than anything his men had been through. Boche Expects Attack. This forest, which covers a consider able tract, was literally a network of barbed wire entanglements, among which there were great numbers of ma chine gun nests dominating the Ameri can line in front of it. The Germans evidently had been ex pecting an attack, for as soon as the drive began many of the little houses along the line sprang into flame set by the Boche, and the whole district was lighted brilliantly. The attack was begun In the darkest hour before dawn and by firing these homesteads the Germans threw the ad vancing troops out in bold relief, which enabled the machine gunners to operate freely. At the same time the German artillery put down a terrific barrage which continued for hours. Straight through this blaze of light the Yankees charged and began the work of clear ing out the machine-gun posts. No di rect frontal attack was made on the wood, but an outflanking operation was started on either side. Machine Guna Cause Delay. Into the advancing forces rapid firers poured a vicious fire from concealed po sitions In the woods. Every farmhouse and haystack along the way and there were many contained its machine gun, which was chattering rapidly. Each of these had to be surrounded and sub dued in turn as the Americans moved forward. Very few civilians had left this dis trict. The farmers and their families were still living in houses which the Germans had seized for machine-gun posts, and while the graycoats were sending streams of bullets from the up per windows and loopholes in the lofts, the people were down below in terror, waiting for they knew not what. Every precaution was taken by the Ameri cans to spare these unfortunate peo ple. The houses were surrounded and the Germans taken prisoner or killed. The wood was taken after several hours of fierce fighting and all the Germans cleaned out. As the day pro gressed the going became easier, but this American division will never for get the first hour of that battle. into and passed Clery-Le-Petit. They overcame the lingering machinegun re sistance in Barricourt wood and cap tured Villcrs-Devant-Dun. Here the enemy launched a counter attack which failed, then the Americans moved for ward again and occupied Doulcon. Gains Are Largce. The total advance averaged more than two and a half miles on a 14-mile front, but was considerably greater at points. Numerous prisoners and heavy guns were taken and the enemy left many ammunition dumps so hastily that they could not be destroyed. As far as the Americans are con cerned, the elaborate preparations they had made to care for their wounded proved to have been unnecessary. Considering the magnitude of the operation, the American losses in yes terday's fighting were email. On the other hand, the reports indicate that the German casualties were unusually heavy. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY NORTHWEST OF VERDUN. Nov. 2. (By the Associated Press.) North of the river where Americans who have broken through the Germans strongest lines of resistance, including the Freya position, which was shattered Satur day, lies the so-called Meuse line, the enemy's last stronghold in this part of France. . The line in general follows the mili tary crests and railroads eastward from Hlrson to Mezieres, Moizon, Sedan, Mon niedy and Longuyon and then south to Etain. The railroad Junctions in the regions of Montmedy and Longuyon al ready are under the fire of the Ameri can big guns. It is not believed the Germans have an organized system of defenses between the American front and this Meuse line, as they had the greatest confidence that the Freya, Kriemhilde and other lines could hold in spite of any attacks designed to break them. The so-called Meuse line has the ad vantage of important railroad junctions connecting it with the main lines direct from Germany by several routes. FORMER LEGISLATOR DIES W. AIj JONES PASSES AFTER SIX 3IOXTHS ILLNESS. YANKS ARE PURSUING FOE (Confirmed From Ftr?rt Pag.) troops in motor trucks had not been able to catch up with the enemy. The Americans were not slow in fol lowing the advantage on the left wing, which had met with the most serious resistance, and began to press forward immediately in the Boise des Loges on the heels of the Germans, clearing up all who lagged -behind. They pushed their line northward for nearly a mile. Champigneulle, a strong point in the Freya defense line, had been taken earlier ir the day and the troops who , had rushed it pressed forward and swept through Verpel, after partly surrounding the town. Slight RrxlNlanre Is Surprise. Through rain and mud the Americans advanced toward Thenorgues, a mile and a half north of Verpel. The enemy had been expected to hold there, for it was a strong position, bnt very little resistance was met when the village was entered. Troops farther to the right continued their victorious march and fought their way beyond Buzancy to Fosse, a strong point nearly seven miles beyond yes terday's starting point and two and a half miles north of Bayonville. Bayonville is an important strategic point known as the heart of the Freya Stellung. With its capture the Ameri can troops had broken the Germans' last organized defense. The troops on the right who had been able to ad vance only just past Clery-Le-Grand yesterday, caught the mysterious sug gestions of the sudden giving way of the Germans nd pressed forward and As Member of ,State Fair Board Stockman Gained Wide Acquaint anceship In Oregon. SALEM, Or., Nov. 2. (Special.) W. Al Jones, expert stockman, legislator, politician and high type of citizen, died at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Jones, in this city this morn ing after an illness of six months. His death was due to paralysis. Mr. Jones was born in Mission Bot tom, this county, December 30, 1877. He was educated at the Mission Bottom school, later going to the Portland Business College, where he graduated. Returning to Mission Bottom he farmed for eight years on the same ranch where he was born. He was married December 6. 1905, to Miss Jessie Creighton, of Salem. In 1911 he went to Joseph, where he handled a 1000-acre farm in Wallowa County for four years, returning to Salem in 1915 as a member of the Legislature from Union and Wallowa counties in the lower house. In 19f6 he became secretary of the State Fair Board and had charge of the fair that year. He had been a member of the fair board for three years before becoming its secretary. In 1917 he was elected to the House of Representatives in the Legislature, from Marion County, hav ing resumed farming in this county after severing his connection with the fair. He also was Republican nominee for State Senator from Marion County. He was- a member of the Salem lodge of Elks, the Masonic lodge at Joseph and the Joseph chapter of the Eastern Star end of the Modern Woodmen at Woodburn. He was also for years & member of the Purebred Livestock As sociation. 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The announcement indicated that the action had been decided upon as a means of testing the constitutionality of a city ordinance under which the Los Angeles board of health forbade all public gatherings, including church seryices, during the prevalence of in fluenza in this city. Chief of Police ButlcV said he would instruct his lieutenants to take such action as they deemed necessary to en force the board of health regulations. EASTERN TRIP IS OFF Commissioner Buchtel Will Not Go to Washington, Funds Larking. SALEM, Or.. Nov. 2. Special.) Ow inp to the rapidly dwindling appropria tions of the Public Service Commission, Commissioner Buchtol, who had consid ered attending the meeting of the Na tional Association of Railway Commis sioners at Washington, . C, Novem ber 12, will not attend. Word was received that the dwindling of Spanish influenza in the Kast had made it unnecessary to postpone the meeting of the commissioners. 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If not the greatest, Industry in the Willamette Valley, was the declaration Incorporated in a statement Issued to day by the Pheasant Northwest Fruit Products Company, which has given Oregon an international reputation as a fruit juice center. In his statement Mr. Schmidt says: "Senator McXary is looking out for the interests of the state of Oregon, not only for the period of the war, but also after the war in aiding us to save the fruit juice industry. He has made It possible for us to establish here in Salem one of the largest preserving plants in the T'nited States, where we manufacture jellies, jams and pre serves of high oiinllfy from this won derful Willamette Valley fruit, and we cannot state too strongly that not only has Senator McXary done work of this nature for us. but he has done it for the state of Oregon, and every voter should cast his ballot to get a good man, a hard worker and loyal aervant In office." ISLANDS SPAR FOR TRADE Copra Industry I looms as Result of European War. PAPEETE. Tahiti. The cold, calcu lating hand of commercialism has grip ped these South Sea Islands. Various trading companies are lo cated here, sending their schooners through the Islands buying copra and distributing such mercnandise as la in request among the inhabitants. Ac cording to residents here, these trading companies are amassing money and, as there la no excess profit tax or red taping commissions, are said to be prof iteering "for all the traffic will bear." By way of reprisal the natives are said to have raised the price of all do mestic foodstuffs and the Innocent by stander complains that he Is being torn to shreds by this economic rip saw. Says one resident: "Tto the east of us Is an archipelago of about SO coral atolls called the Paumo tu Group, whence come both copra and pearl shell, and and It is Bis? Mortgage Is Filed. VANCOUVER, Wash., Xov. 2. espe cial.) 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