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OREGON NOT
TO LOSE Oil
RIVERS GUI
Senator Chamberlain Wins a
Signal Victory for State
by Assuring Continuance
of Improvement Work on
Columbia River Two Years
$1,000,000 cash Will
be available at once
Work Put on Continuing Ba-
sis to Amount of Another
$1,500,000 Which Must
Be Appropriated by Next
Congress.
(WflftblnKton Bnran of The Journal.)
Washington, Sept. 12. Tha senate
committee on commerce held a Ion
enaion last night, at which Senator
Burton wbi present, and agreed to
cut out nearly 119,000,000 from the
rivers and hnrbors bill. The appro
priation of $1,000,000 cash for the
Columbia remaiim, bat the authoriza
tion to enter Into further contract to
complete the project Is reduced from
94,100,000 to $1,500,000.
This action throws this Item from
the "commerce to the appropriations
committee of which Senator Chamber
lain in a member. No other change
Is made in the Oregon appropriations,
which have not been attacked on the
floor of the senate.
Senator Ilurton says that while he
Is not bound by the action of the com
jnittee, the bill is greatly improved
from his standpoint. The Ohio river
lost $3,000,090, the Mississippi river
92,000,000, the Missouri river $1,000,-
000 and all authorisations for future
work on the Ohio arje cut out.
Senator Chamberlain says that work
on the Columbia will proceed Just the
same as if no cut had been made, and
lie thinks that congress will eventu
ally grant funda to complete the Co-
1 umbra project originally eoirtem
plated.
The proposed action set forth in
the foregoing dispatch is regarded by
tlie friends of the Columbia river pro
ject as- a signal victory, remarkable
In view of the fight that has ben
made on the rivers and harbors bill.
It means that Senator Chamberlain
lias secured the retention of the mil
lion dollar cash appropriation, which
Is immediately needed, and that the
work has been placed on the con
tinuing contract to the amount of an
additional million and a half. This
latter sum must be provided by the
next congress. The amounts pro
poned are sufficient to ensure tne
continuance of the work for at least
two years and strong confidence is ex
pressed that Senator Chamberlain will
obtain at the next session the con
tract authorization for the full amount
required by the estimates of the en
gineers.
War Tax Bill Will
Wait on President
Speaker Underwood Will Hot Intro
duce It In House Until Wilson's Re.
torn Prom Cornish.
Washington, Sept. 12. Because of
opposition to the proposed war tax on
freight. Representative Underwood,
chairman of the house ways and means
committee, announced this afternoon
that he would not Introduce the war
tax bill in the house until President
Wilson returns from Cornish and ap
proves the measure. The president will
return to Washington Tuesday. He
left for Cornish yesterday.
At a conference hero this afternoon
between Representative Underwood,
Postmaster General Burleson and Sec
retary of the Treasurer McAdoo, it
wi decided to postpone the launching
of the war tax bill. Underwood said
he wanted the measure to have the un
reserved indorspmnt of President Wil
son before presenting It to congress.
House Democrats were circulating
. a petition for a caucus next Monday
night. Some of the Democratic mem
bers of the house are openly lnsurging
gainst the war tax bill. Indefinite
prolongation of the present session of
congress was predicted this afternoon
. many believing it will continue until
November 1. Others believed It would
lap Into the December session.
More War Pictures
Four pages in THE SUNDAY
JOURNAL Magazine for to
! morrow will be devoted exclu
sively to actual photographs
from the war xone.
Pictures of the Belgian battle
fields and villages through which
the Germans passed show th
devastation that follows the ar
mies. Pictures of .troops preparing to
engage in strife ate in marked
contrast , to the photographs of
wounded and maimed soldiers
returned from the front
For the newest and best war
photographs see ,
THE SUNDAY JOUR
NAL TOMORROW!
RIGHT WING
TOO FAST IN
E ON PARIS
Garrison From Capital Falls
on Flank and Compels Re
treat With Loss,
By J. W. T. Mason.
Former London Correspondent for the
United Press.
New York. Sept. 12. It was appa
rent today that the outrunning by the
German right wing of the rest of the
kaiser's advance into France was pri
marily responsible for the confusion
Into which the Teutonic campaign
against Paris has been thrown.
News that the German right had
reached Proving before its repulse
gives the key to the mystery.
Provins is 50 miles southeast of
Paris and dominates the highways
which the German center and left
would have to use in enveloping Paris
from the southward.
Driving down from the northward
the right reached It too aoon.
Speedy Bight Zs Isolated.
Unchecked to the east of Paris the
wing crossed the River Marne to Join
the Germans coming from the east
ward. But the Germans from the eastward
failed to arrive. They were held In
the Catalaunian fields district, where
Atilla and his Huns were defeated In
tne nrth century.
The speedy German right was.
therefore, isolated. The . Paris gar
rison emerged and fell on its flank and
during the past week it has hewn
forced backward until today it was 60
miles northeast of Paris, near Sols
sons. That the defeat of the German right
was due to deep strategy on the al
lies' part is refuted by frank admis
sion in London and Paris official re
ports earlier in the week that the Ger
man movements were puzzling.
They were puzzling because they
were due to ta serious error In calcu
lations of the time necessary for the
German center and left to swing
around Paris.
Some one among the higher Ger
man military! authorities seems to
nave blundered badly and German
strategy Is now seriousiy affected,
for It must now rearrange Its objec
tives. The German attack on Verdun was
an attempt to open the door into
France from the east, an alternative
to the unfortunately chosen route
through Belgium.
Verdun Is the northernmost point of
the eastern French frontier fortifica
tions, which, ; extending along the
iueuse u mnes to toui. after the
Strategic to nine opening- "between- Twit
and Kplnal, continue along the Moselle
to tne Swiss frontier.
What Captor Would Mean.
The German capture of Verdun, if
followed by the occupation of the other
defenses between there and Toul, 1
might seriously interfere with a
French invasion of Lorraine and
greatly benefit German lines of com
munication, since the most direct ap
proach from German by rail to the
present field of military operations is
by way of Verdun.
The Russian's attempt to resume
their march on Berlin met with a
fresh repulse.
The Germans were shoving the Rus
sians out of Kast Prussia at about the
same rate that they themselves are
retiring from France.
The battle of Lyck, reported as an
important German victory, occurred
15 miles within the east Prussian fron
tier and Russian Poland is again in
danger of a serious Invasion.
The German general staffs confi
dence in its ability to hold off Rus
sia's advance for an appreciable length
of time with its second line of troops
seems wen lounded much more so
than its belief in its ability to con
tinue its offense in France indefinitely.
Sight of American
Flag Gladdens 'Her
Mrs. Agnes Oowans Returns to Port
land From Three Months' Visit With
Her Mother In Scotland.
"I never felt so safe as when I got
under the stars and stripes at Sumas,"
said Mrs. Agnes Gowans. 255 East
Thirty-second street, who arrived
home Wednesday night from spend
ing three months visiting her mother
and other relatives In Scotland.
When the European war broke out,
and payment on; .all travelers checks
was stopped, the condition of many
stranded. Americans was very trying,
she said. She. attended the big meet
ing of Americans in Glasgow on Aug
ust 10, when a relief committee was
organized and a fund was raised to
give relief to those wno required Im
mediate assistance.
She said many of the citizens of
Glasgow opened their homes to Amer
icana needing assistance. -
When mobilization began and sol
diers were being moved, she said the
greatest secrecy was maintained by
the English government. She said, th
troops themselves were kept in ignor
ance of their destination. The govern
ment commandeered many ships, she
said, and dumped whole cargoes Into
the sea, to save time in getting the
boats ready to transport soldiers.
Mrs. Gowans returned home on the
Calgarian. which ran to Quebec. They
were held over night, by a British
cruiser, and met another one in day
light and exchanged signals. There
were 1500 passengers on board, many
wealthy Americans traveling in the
steerage. .-.
Russians Capture
Tomaszow, Poland
CoDenhaeen. Rent 1 9 T a -Rn.
capture . of Tomaszow was reported
nere toaay n messages rrom Petro.
grad. . -r . "-. -.
The town is in the extreme south
of Russian Poland and Was1 held by
ihe Austrlans.
Russians were also said to have re
pulsed German - troops .. near Chorzele
and Myszinec, Russian Poland."
GERMAN
MOVED
ADVANC
TERRIBLE TOLL
GUNS
OH BATTLEFIELD
Machine Guns Mow Down
Lines of Advancing Ger
mans, but Others Fill Up
Gap; Avalanche Unchecked
KRUPP SIEGE GUNS
TEAR HOLES IN FORT
United Press Correspondent
Sends Letter to N. Y. That
Escapes Censor.
By Karl H. von Wiegand.
Aix-La-Chapelle, Germany, Aug. ;9.
By Courier to New York via Rotter
dam to escape British censorships
America has not the faintest realiza
tion of the terrible carnage going on
in Europe.
She cannot realize the determina
tion of Germany, all Germany men,
women and children In this war. The
German empire is like one man. And
that man's motto is "Vaterland Oder
Tod!" (Fatherland or Death!)
English news sources are reported
here as telling of the masterly re
treat of the allies. Here in the Ger
man field headquarters, where every
move on the great chessboard of Bel
gium and France is analyzed, the war
to date Is referred to as the greatest
offensive movement in the history of
modern warfare.
Berlin Apex of Triangle.
The Sity is Just behind the apex of
a wonderful triangle. This triangle la
formed by the German offensive lines,
closing in on the British-French-Bel
glan lines. ICTis moving with relent
less swiftness, hammering at every
point. It is driving the allied armies
south and west toward Paris.
Yet no one here knows whether
Paris really is the objective.
The French offensive is to be
crushed.
The British are to be driven away
from their seacoast bases.
After, that Paris will be taken, but
before then there will be fought the
greatest battle the world has ever
witnessed.
Tonight the German patrols are
threatening Ostend. Part of the right
wing has been pushed southward ' be
yond Lille.
The' combined British and French
(Concluded on Page Three. Column Two)
GREAT BRITAIN GETS
READY TO DESTROY
TURKS' NAVAL POWER
Base Established on Island
of Lemnos With the Per
mission of Greece,
(United Press leased Wire.
Rome, Sept. 12. England is prepared
to smash Turkey's naval power, it was
stated here by the Tribuna today, if
the sultan joins Germany and Austria-
Hungary.
Greece, the Tribuna added, has per
mitted the British to establish a naval
base on the island of Lemnos and the
Mediterranean fleet i ready to strike.
inis, it was added, accounted for Brit
ish naval inactivity in the Adriatic.
Trouble with Turkey was considered
here today to be very seriously threat,
ened. News that the ambassadors at
Constantinople had told the sultan the
powers could not accept a termination
of the Turkish extra territorial rights
was looked on as likely to bring mat
ters to a- bead immediately.
Announcement that the German am-
oassaqor was among those who refused
to listen to the Turkish proclamation
of the abrogation of its extra terri
torial treaties was puzsling. It had
been assumed the sultan had German
backing In making his declaration.
Nevertheless It was believed the Ot
toman government must have figured
that its way was clear to putting Its
program through, or it would not have
acted so uncompromisingly, and diplo
mats, nere aid not tnink it would yield
easily.
Developments, which it was agreed
might quite possibly be of a warlike
nature, were eagerly awaited.-
Forester Graves
Coming to Coast
WIU; investigate Proposal to Abolish
the Mount Olympus Hational Monu
ment in the Olympic Forest.
(Washington Bureau or Th JoninM.t '--Washington,
Sept. 12. Chief Fores
ter Henry S.-Graves of the United
States Forest Service left Washington
today for Portland to make an inves
tigation 'of - the proposition of abolish
ing" the Mount Olympus .national mon
ument in the Olympic national forest,
across Puget sound from' Seattle. Mr.
Graves la due to ; arrive . in Portland
September 19 and from there will prob
ably go "direct to Mount Olympus, sit
uated in the heart of the Olympics. -f
There has bfeen considerable- agita
tion lately for the abolishing of the
national monument ' district about
OJympus. which prevent hunting and
the prosecution .of commercial pursuits,
such as mining. Most of this agitation
has been on the part of Puget sound
people. '
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No Compromise or
Truce for British
"We Must Go Forward Unflinchingly
to the End," Declares Irord Church
ill in Pnblie Address.
London. Set)t. 12. First I.orrf of
the Admiralty Winston Churchill.
warned the British public, in an ad
ores at a big. war meeting here last
night, that reverses as well as vic
tories mUSt bo MfWlaJ In h flrV
ing On the MnHnMlt Tha nrorn.
ment, he said, was prepared for them.
"It is our life or Germany's," he de
clared. "There must be, there can bv
neither compromise nor truce. Wc
must go forward unflinchingly to tho
end." i
The ShiDvarda. Y.
working night and day on all battle
ships in course of construction and
every vessel being built In Great
Britain, no m&ttnr fnr vh
was intended, has been commandeered
oy me iiritlsn.
"We should further." the first lord
Concluded. "nilt nn tn tVio iunllinl
and keep there at least 1,000,000 sol-
uiere. we must maintain that num
ber regardless of any stress.
"By January 1 Lord Kiti-hnr h
war minister. says we will have an
additional 600,000 ready and bytiie
uuui;i m we snail nave Zo
army corps in fighting trim."
Eussians Defeated,
Is German Claim
Perlin Announces Baooesses in Xast
Prussia Against Invading Army;
XdttU Said of Battle la Prance.
Washington. Sent. 12 a" R.-in
wireless to the German embassy said:
merman victories in Prussia con
tinue. "The Russians attenrnted
the Germans by launching the Twenty
second army corps, against General
von Hinderberg's army's flank. The
Russians were defeated. Svni t:
elan batteries were captured."
a message received later in the day
said:
"The German nn th
France at II o'clock today presum-
uiy were continuing the struggle.
General von Uausen's Saxon arjny
seems to have fought brilliantly and
icicgrajjaeo nis congratu
lations tO the klnir r. Co.nn.. i .
- o w. ua..iwuj u ma
splendid achievements."
.moassy officials said the kaiser
had awarded 11 0 Iron crosses to the
Eighty-third German infantry for its
Mllontim . - .
". f iu Biurming idege.
The financial situation in Germany
was said to be most satisfactory.
War Era Nears End,
Declares Secretary
Gonvolaion to JEnp$g'jtv
-A-oroeB ox ax ui tar ism; Entering on a
Hew Stage, Says Bryan.
Baltimore. Md.. Sept. 12. Secrets rv
or state .Bryan was the principal
speaker here today at the closing cere
mdnles of the Star Spangled banner
celebration. He said the war era was
ended so far as America was coneerniwl.
and was rapidly nearintr Its end abroad
The convulsions in Europe now" he
aid. "are the death throes of mill tar
Ism. We are entering a new- stage
wherein freedom will be given new in
terpretations and bravery find new
forms of exDression. Th flnctrlns of
the divine ritrht of kinea will ho rile-
carded to no purpose If the right of
man aoes not lead to the elevation of
men."
Leave Egypt on Request.
Calrc. Egypt. Sept. 12. At the Brit
ish authorities' request, the German
charge d'affalrs and the Austrian dip
lomatic agent left Egypt.
THE HUNGRY SEVEN" JOINS IN
GERMANS IN GENERAL RETREAT;
VTFRY ABANDONED TO FRENCK
GERMAN CENTER IS GIVING W,
As the Battle Appeared to a German Soldier
Describiiig the fighting to Karl Hi von "Wiegand, the United
Press correspondent In Germany, a Wounded German soldier said:
"It vas indescribable carnage,- Wje met hand to hand. It wag
bayonet to bayonet, rifles clubbed, automatic pistols and swords.
'The dead were piled like barricades everywhere.
"Blood ran like brooks. i j
"It seemed like a horrible nightmare.
"Here and iiere in the pile of mutilated corpses, a hand would
move or a leg, twitch convulsively, j A mass : of bloody flesh that
once was a man would murmur for water.
"But there jvas not time to aid. j We had to fight until we
won. Then we tried to save life. But it was usually too late."
Late War
CAPTURED BY AUSTRALIANS
London. SeDt. 12. OccuDation
by an Australian naval squadron
under Admiral Patey of the islands
of the Bismarck, archipelago a
German possession in , the Pacific,
was announced today by the offi
cial war Information bureau.
The landing narty. it was stated.
took possession of the town of Her
bertshohe, on Herbertshohe island.
Vigorous resistance was encoun
tered, the Australians being forced
to fight their way for four miles
through the bush along mined
roads and - in the fighting Com
mander Charles Elwell and two
bluejackets were killed and a num
ber wounded.
GENERALS DECORATED
Bordeaux, Sept. 12. Generals
Manoury and Dubail were dec
orated today with the grand cross
of the legion of honor and Gen
eral Foch was made a grand offi
cer of the legion for heroic work
on- the battlefield.
WIPED OUT BY COSSACKS
Petrograd, Sept. 12. "The Rus
rian general advance continues,"
asserted the war office today. The
czar's forces are ready for their
Freights May Fail
Pax&flo Coast Representatives Protest
on the Orotund That Bates on Freight
Are Too High Wow.
(Washington Bureau of Tt Journal.)
Washington, Sept. 12. Members of
the majority in the house opposed to
the tar on railroad freights say they
will be able to beat It in caucus Mon
day". Pacific coast representatives are
protesting, this proposed tax on the
ground that their freight rates are al
ready too high.
EARTHQUAKE IN PERU
Lima. Peru, Sept. 12. Caravoli, a
town of 4000 inhabitants, was badly
damaged by an earthquake today. It
was not known whether there were
any fatalities.
Bulletins
march on Breslau, It was added.
An Incident was related of an
attack at Gorodek recently by
three Cossack regiments on nine
Hungarian regiments, as a result
of j which only thirty Hungarians
survived.
GERMANS LEAVING BELGIUM
Ghent, Sept. 12. Belgian forces
from Antwerp were occupying
their old positions in the north
today. The Germans had pushed
on1 into France. Forty thousand
of; them were In this vicinity a few
days ago. Today all were gone.
The sudden, withdrawal was Inter
preted as meaning that the Ger
man right 'wing was In danger of
annihilation.
j It was rumored that the Bel
gians would soon reoccupy Brus
sels. GERMANS MIRED BY FLOOD
(Antwerp, Sept. 12. King Albert
had gone to the front today. The
Germans have abandoned the siege
of Antwerp. The opening of the
dke gates and flooding of the,
country In which they were oper
ating evidently surprised them.
The flooded district was littered
with their mired and abandoned
cannon .and transportation equip
ment. .4..This ; German backset.' having
been accomplished.' "the Belgians
had reclosed. the dike gates and
were recovering from the damage
done to them by the German ar
tillery. LEFT WING DEFEATED
; Washington, Sept. 12. Con
tinued German victories In East
Prussia were reported In a wire
less message received from Berlin
at the German embassy here today.
1 said the left wing of the Rus
sian army was decisively defeated.
AUSTRIANS RUSHING AID
London, Sept. 12. Austrian
troops are rushing from Prague to
the aid of the Germans in France,
it, was asserted In a Rome dispatch
received here this afternoon by
I the Star.
THE SERENADE
British Pursuing
ing Them to Retreat Toward
Rheims; Third French Army ,
Takes German Corps' Guns.
GERMANS IN GENERAL
RETREAT FROM MARNE
(United Press Leased Wire)
Paris, Sept. 12. Evacuation by the Germans of Vitry- '
Ie-Francois, where they were heavily entrenched, was an-
nounced here this afternoon. The departure was so pre-1-cipitate
that quantities of munitions were abandoned.
It was announced also that the kaiser's for in ih? Ar.
gonne forest region were retiring. This was. taken as in
dicating a general retreat.
The French were making some progress in Lorraine, it
was stated, and had occupied the eastern border of Cham
penous forest, the Germans evacuating St. Die.
"The Germans are in full retreat from the Rivers Oise
and Marne," said the official announcement.
"The British and French are in hot pursuit.
"Apparently the enemy is greatly weakened. Their
resistance is diminishing,
'They were retiring Friday along the Soissons-Hsiles-Rheims
road. Their cavalry was greatly exhausted.
"On the center and right they have evacuated Vitry-le-Francois,
Sermaize-les-Baines and Revigny, which they had
strongly fortified.
"Their retirement was so hasty that they were forced to
abandon much war material.
"In Argonnes also they are retreating northward
through the torest of Belnoue."
GERMANS ABANDON EQUIPMENT, i '
"" PatrSTSeD'r" l2:Fmm1Trp? ft rrrrf mri v --r--rf f J a A
, . - -'w. wa nui uiiikw WatilW -
as$urances this afternoon that the German retreat from
Paris still continued, with the French and British hotly
Dursuin? the Teutons alonr the R
mans were said to have lost
country xnrougn wnicn tney
BRITISH TAKE MANY PRISONERS. '
London, Sept. 12. -The official war information bu
reau today issued the following statement:
"The British continue the pursuit of the Germans in '
northeastern France, forcing them hnrk tnwarrf pfi?mc
They are rushing the enemy
"The allies' cavalrv Is reported in h
Friday night between Soissons and Fiumes, on the Vosle
UVCi.
"The enemy is also reported retreating north of Vitry-
Ie-Francois, and the third French army has taken all the
artillery of one German corps. Our aeroplanes report that
the retreat is very rapid.
"The allies are exerting powerful pressure at the west
ern end of the German right, thus correspondingly weaken
ing the kaiser's center." , . '
GERMAN CENTER GIVES GROUND. . '
Washington, Sept. 12. TJie following cable was re-
ceived at the French embassy here today from Bordeaux:
"The French general staff said the first German army
continues its. backward movement .Three of its corps
were repulsed last night between Villiers and Cotterets.
The tenth corps of the German second army was also re
pulsed, withdrawing to the north of the St. Gond swamps.
The German center, therefore, at last is giving ground after
a hard fight between Sezanne and Vitry.
"In Argonne the fourth German army has been pushed
north of Troisfontaines forest.
"The fifth German army, after attempting to hold our
right wing, has been thrown back."
YThe French occupy Vasincourt.
"On the Russian side, the Austrian army was forced
to retreat near Tomaszow."
GERMANS IN RETREAT RUN
SHORT OF AMMUNITION, FOOD
Paris, Sept. 12. The German right wing's retreat in
northeastern France was reported degenerating into a rout
today. - . : -
. The men's ammunition was running short and their'
food. supplies shorter. . . -
That the seat of the French government would shortly
be transferred from Bordeaux to Paris was generally
predicted. " -
The worst of the fighting was in the center of the Ar
gonne district. '-.-. , ' -
The Germans had retired .from Sezanne and , Vitrjy-Ie-
- . ' . t Concluded on Page Three, Coloutnn One.) .
Germans, Forc
much equipment in the wooded
are tieeing.
very fast and taking many