THE OREGON f SUNDAY ! JOURNAL,! PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 2, 1915. DARDANELLES FORTS UNDERGOING TERRIFIC RRE BY ALLIED FLEET Bombardment Been Steady ; Since. Tuesday and Many J Reported in! Ruins, r j ' : BRITISH HOLD GALUPOL1 Strong lulu Expedition Operating Against BosporaewAUles to Make ; ; Ha for Constantinople. Imdonj, May 1 (U; P.) British troop have isolated and masked the Turkish land forts guarding the Dar danelles from the West. On the, Asia tic side French colonial troops are- do ling the same thine. The Turks are fizhtina- lwith the desperation i of fanaticism And are inflicting stagger , Ing losses en the allies, but the latter tre movinc on, ' U The latest ad'Ices reaching London tonight eay that General Sfr Jan Hamilton's expedition has thrown a lne across the-peninsula of Gallipoll from the IGaJf ofSBaros to the town of Gallipoli; that the fire from the allied fleet has reduced the defenses Of Che town, which la njW held by the Brit ish and that Its men" also have strong footholds 'at Gaba Tepe on Suvia Bay and at CapeTeke.' ' - ' . .Aerial iteconnaisances show, the main body of --jthe Turks. Who ihave been massed at) the upper end of the penin sula, havej now retreated to! Tsant and I'axarkios.! - ". . -s ' I : ' The principal ..Turkish forces who have been defending the Dardanelles re now" fik the various forta along the isthmus, j It Is expected it will be possible ' t0t drive them out, now j that the attack; can De tienverea oom irora land and sea. 1 -. The allied fleet, haa been bombarding the forts almost "con tinually since last Tuesday and some of them ate reported Ja ruins. Officials at the war offioe laugh at the official Turkish report, issued In Constantinople and sent from Berlin by wireless, in which it is claimed the British and French have been drive back to.'thje coast. , They say that the claims are entirely false and declare- the situation could not be better -'from 'the' British point of view. . Incidentally .it becdmes more and more evident every day that it Is to be a race between the British and the French on the one hand and the Rus sians on the other for Constantinople. , Petrograd.) advices hint at a strong Russian expedition operating against : the Bosporus There has been no ef fort to disguise the belief In both Paris and jtohdon that it will be bet ter from ihe standpoint of England and France If they, rather than Rus sia, are the conquerors of the Turkish capital. - . '. : - i , - - - . ! Turkish View of Fighting. j London, .May - 1, TJ. P.) Despite the -denial j by the British' war office that the Turks have gained the slight est advantage over the allies along the Dardanelles the official Turkish r office statement. Issued today in Constantinople and sent here by Wire less from, Berlin, reiterates the claim of Turkish victory. It read as fol lows: - v, I . i- -i ' "At Kabatekc on the' peninsula of Galllpoll, the enemy was . shut in a narrow strj of land and attetnptiag to fight his way out was forced to re treat) to tide protection of his "ships after suffering enormous! losses. On the shores of the Bay of Bares an at tempted' landing : by .the (nmy was frustrated. WRh heavy loss. The offi cial Brittan communication reviewing the fightinig from Sunday ito Thurs day- admit army and heavy losses to the allied fleet." Man's Ear Cut Off By MovingPevatorL Alvin S. I Hall, an electrical engi neer with offices in to he Railway Ex change building, had iis right ear cut OfK by a knife when caught in a mov ing elevator In the Railway Exchange building last night. Mr. Hall.; with his -partner, George Miliar, and (Mrs. Miller was Just step ping in the! car to go down from the fifth floor to the street and had one foot in, the elevator and one on the landing wheh 'the elevator suddenly shot down I about four feet. In the hands of aa inexperienced operator It shot up again and then bounced up and down three times. Hall's car waa cut off and he was painfully bruised. He was rushed to gt. Vincent! hospital by the Ambu lance Service ; company, where T4r Carl Thorburn Ross sewed the suh- Death "by prevention : of sleep is a legal form jof punishment in China. : - i ... 1 . , it will cost Too less in The long kon The man who pays a consis tent price for ; good clothes find' tba it costs iliim less "in the long runJhan buying . cheap outfits. . Vf hav joy f togs' for the : young linan, and stylish, cbnservative clothes for the seniors. Xew York, May !. (U.- P.) Turkey's army demonstrated this rweek that even under German tutorship it has not improved its morale over the form it snowea auring toe aiaan war. wi every natural aavantage iavoring. me defense, the Turks han-e been unable to prevent a British army under General Ian Hamilton, landing at four, places on the Galllpolt peninsula. The success of General Hamilton's tactics is the most notable that has fallen to any Brit ish army commander since the' war began. t ' ' - The difficulties, hewever, which must yet be- avercerse before -the- Dar danelles defenses can be captured are far greater that those which confronted the British landing parties. The Gallipot! peninsula Is heavlsy entrenched and almost the entire area is covered witfc, fortifications, redoubts and bat teries. The Turks showed during toe Balkan war that once within prepared entrenchments they were much better fighters than in the open. The Bul garians had no difficulty defeating the Mohammedans Until the Chatlja de fenses, II miles west of Constantinople, were reached. Against these perma nent works, stretching tot 28 miles across European Turkey; from the. sea' of Marmora to the Black aea, the Bulgarians were able to do nothing. . Similar defensive lines protect the Galllpoll peninsula. If General Ham ilton can force these lines he will tank as the most effective British com mander of the war. 6o difficult, indeed, is the usk that it may well be the Galllpoll campaign will turn out net to be the main offensive, against Constantinople. General Hamilton may be accomplishing the work assigned to him if he eliminates a large part of the Turkish army. While the real advance on Constantinople is made from the shore of the Gulf of 6aros. , i The battle of Tores ended during the week with the Germans consolidating most of the 20 square miles of territory they have won. from the allies. The ena-arement haa had no result of major importance. Its quick conclusion Indl' cates the Germans are no more willing than are the allies to risk another holo caust like that of the battle of Flanders in face of a minor victory at best. ' During the battle of Ypres, it was reported the UermafiS were using nincn guns, the newest output of the Krupp works, whose coming appearance had long been rumored. Confirmation of the presence of record-making artillery within the Qermaa lines came later in the week whan Dunkirk was bombarded from the German positions near Kieuport. This is a distance no less than IT miles. Never before have field guns been able to fire so far. So amaaed were the authorities at Dunkirk that they believed the bombardment came .from a German squadron along the Belgian coast until airmen revealed the true source, German, possession of these guns means that if Calais be captured by the kaiser, the .straits of Dover can be closed to shipping except at great risk of long distance shelling. . r y ;---- s 5 -;--y:! ' The joint temperance influenee of King George and Lor Kitchener has been unable to persuade the British government to brave publio, opinion by experimenting with prohibition as an aid to Industrial efficiency. A bill intro duced In the bouse of commons by Uoyd-George during the week, seeks to meet the' issue raised by the government itself, by high excise taxes on wines, spirits and heavy beers. . The opponents of the government have been quick to see the unpopularity of 'arbitrarily raising the prices of liquors.. News paper attacks against the cabinet are developing. "The barley water ministry" is one term of reoroach being extensively used. It la apparent that the gov ernment IS in danger of losing the United support of tha country which it J haa had J slnoe last August. A' coalition government may yet aispisce tne Asqutth cabinet before the war ends. v A new offensive by the Germans northward from East Prussia into the Russian Baltic provinces was announced at the end of the week. Details are too meager for present comment. The secrecy which has covered the advance; however, does not suggest the presence of a large army, The enterprise. In fact, mar be ho more than a raid similar to the recent Russian expedition which captured Memel and held it long enough for looting purposes, ? . . . SUN AND FLOWERS IN: AVAR ZONE FORETELL LE HORRJB SLAUGHTER Harbingers of Spring, Ordi narily Greeted With: Pleas ure, Now Bring Shudders. ' THEY' ARE DEATH ' SIGNS Tke Bmlllag Vasttures . and rtelas Invite the War Ood's Wraths Green By William Philip Sims. (Culted Press Stsff Correspondent.) With the French -Army, April 10, (By mall to- New York).Aiong the battlefront f rom ' Switterland. acroea France and Belgium to Dover straits, 00 miles In length, spring lias-corr. And' everyone .is agreed- that this spring will- see-the bloodiest fighUng since God made man. . ' ' Perhapsl you would like to see some of this fighting line before the fray begins. If you would, then come along, for General Joffre. forthe first time, has "given his consent to a foreign cor respondent to "see . everything ; he wishes' at the foremost front. A cap tain of the general staff will be. your guide. As you buzs along In the high pow er motor through the warm -day the dandelions are thick. Gently -sloping hillsides are revealed covered wtfih anemones, farjret-me-nots.' lfiies of the valley and wild violets. Early peach trees are blooming snd 'jonquil hedges are flaming flower beds 'of rich gold. What the Sunshine BKeans. Then you 't shudder. "" Suddenly s ou remenjber what this sunshine and beautiful picture mean. The awak ening of the war god, the' renewal of furious, gory - battles, of smashing-offensive! th bulidlna; of heaps and pyramids "of brotaen bodies. A -tender little violet, blooming under its leaf, means a pile of dead men, a fragrant narcissus blooming in a peasant's yard stands for the lives of the young men of - the entire neighborhood; that anemone yon see smiling at you from the pasture there represents; a huge crater dug by giant shells, and in it pieces of human-flesh mixed with torn shreds of : horseflesh. V -. You shudder and you cboke and you have to be called twice before - you realize V that your ' automobile has stopped and you are to walk along a ridge for a quarter of a mile -to see, from the ruins of, a stone mill, the surrounding country occupied "on the ast by the Germans, on the west by the allies. .: . i- . "See that patch "of woods thereto the northeast?", the staff officer as"ks. You do. , ... " ' "Well. 25.000 men have fallen there alnce October and the I lines still are the same." It is Notre Dame da Iorett sixl the village is half in the Germans' hands and half in the hands of. the French. Through alasses you- can -follow the trenches for several miles., Yet you do not see a alga of life except a man plowing. It is all a bit disappointing. Warm Weather Awaits. y:: - Yet you have the word of your guide for it that two great armies are right there, fronting each other, juet before your eyes. ' There la a lull now,' but the weather . warms the earth and summer .will Interrupt It with a Jolt which will smear the landscape with blood. "' ' ' ' . But come along.- You are to go from brigade headquarters to the foremost trenches tonight, within a few- feet of Oermans. Before 'starting you dine. The colonel, an acting brigadier-general, is your host. ' His staff sit on right and left of you about the ta ble. .Some are tin cartridge cases, as chairs are few.: ; fTh room is flighted partly by oil iamps and partly b candles. You remark that the dlnn Is good and are fold it was cooked by a soldier who, before the war, waaeiie of Paris', leading plumbers. .While' you eat -the belch of heavy; artillery la heard ; over the ridge, jbf fleers'- come and go. but you are-allowed -to finish your dinner, liquors, cigara and all. ' ' Leaving the pitch aark flower gar den ; that fronts the -k farmhouse you stumble to the left down a badly cut up highway skirting t hilt.4; There Isn't a lirht anywhere; none Is shown, by. specif lc --orders, f or. Zeppelin's, Taubes or aviators may be prowling overhead with- bombs poised. .You 'pass &ark forms going in the opposite direc tionorderlies with , messages i from headquarters. Now you 4urn to( the right and start up a narrow atreet. I You are in thai village. You don't i take three steps before the sentry calls out sharp, not loud, "Halt!" Your officer advances, gives the word for the night, the sentry presents arms, you advance. At;last you are in the active war xone. - - ,"' ' ' i.-.';.-.: Forty New, Names ! Added to Chamber " . --i : ,. : .7 H- I v About 40 new names1 were added to th Chamber of Commerce roll last night at a get-acqualnted meeting of new members. Talks were made by various members. . .t:i: : r May Day in Chicago 1 - Finds Idle 160,00 ; Of This 'Wast Knmber 36.0OO Ar killed Workmen; Ironworkers O , on Strike. --r- j .,-','.' ... . Chicago. May (U. V.)- Chlcaa -May, Day, labor's international holidaJj found, more -than 160,000 workers i n employed oW. account of striUes of lockout p. '."-About SS.rtOO. of thoxn l1? j men are skilled' workers. The rrj mainder were thrown out rX work b Cause their places depend' on tlie wni of ihe skilled tradesmen. Thone o strike or locked lout are 10,000 j pehters and mlllmpn, 000 pamior) 600 lathers, 120 ironworkr-rs; in.no sheet and metalworkers, 11,000 lator! era and 3000- bricklayers.- ' J The Ironworkers struck today, a agreed on, becauxe the oontractorn if j fused the demand "for ' wage Im-rons.. . and that -placing: of steel siirport ii cement work be given to metnl)ers p I their union. " -i ' r i ' . j . Firei Damn's llci1cnre. " j The residence of Wllllab Robl erdlni at 1308 East Fourteenyi street Hortif sustained damage to tlm amount r A $1000 ln a fire of, unknowh-orisln Ihh night. . J .- . j OR SCHOOL CONTRACTU IS GIVEN TO THE NEXT TOTHE LOWEST BIDDER " ' ; : " ; ' ' ' '" " New Kennedy Structure Will Cost District $25,635 Ex clusive of Painting. Contract iforV the new .Kennedy school has been let to John Almeter for $21,685, exclusive of palntihg. The contract was let at a special mating of the school board;, ": Almeter was the next lowest bidder for j the Job, and , considerable com merijt has. been caused by the school baaid permitting Martin Clancy, who waa low bidder, to withdraw bis bid. Almeter's , bid "Was . S7,78,. Including painting, orl, $2150 to be deducted if jtaef palntingl was- to be eliminated. Clancy's bldJ was 26,43$,ahd $1700 less if -the -painting was eliminated. Clancy's1 bid, with the painting eli minated, was .nearly $1000 lower than Aimeter's. . , i After the bids were opened Clancy requested to be permitted to with draw his bid on 'the groun1 that he had made an error and bid too low. School Architect F. A. Nararnore re commended that Jf the board ; permit him to withdraw his bid that the con tract be let to the next lowest bidder. Procedure Xs Criticized. ft. H. Thomas says It for a bidder to ask to withdraw his bid. Such procedure is criticised by persons not connected with , school -atf airs, v They point out the' opportunity that is opened for bidders who would resort to question able practices to take advantage of the school board. Such a bidder, it is pointed out, might put" in two or more bids, under - separate nanies, for dif ferent amounts. If two of such bids should be the low bids, then the per son In whose name the lowest bid bad been submitted could ask" to with draw his bid. The foxy bidder still would beBBured of getting the con tract and at a sum considerably high thn TiU lower bid. - DrNK. A. Sommer, a member of the building committee of the board, said yesterday that Clancy, after the bids had been opened, asked him to en deavor to f get the board to allow Clancy $1000 more on his bid. When Dr. Sommer declined. CJancy told him he would withdraw his bld ' Dr. Som mer. said he also, objected to; some of the men he Understood Would be sub contractors if Clancy got the con tract , 5 1 -- - Oeald Save XelA Clancy. Dr. Sommer and J. V, Beach, the lawyer member of the board... each said there waa no doubt the board could have held Clancy to his bid and forced hhn to accept the contract or forfeit his check for 10 per cent of the amount of his bid. They said, how ever, they did not believe it would have' been! good -public policy to do that, as a contractor who -would be forced to take a. contract would have too many opportunities to slight his work in order to make up his loss. China; Defies Japan; . Refuses Demands POLICEMEN STAR AS REAL ACTOR FOLK IN SPRINGTIME JUBILEE ""aBass-si awM-Mwi Bluecoats Bring Forth -Many Hearty I; Laughs ' in i Com munity Festival, -: You will be tioing yourself a favor Ito pay this i shop a visit.. Phegley&Cavender Cor.- Fourth ; aid 'Alder "Stt. sTegotiations Broken off Abruptly s7 rraeideat Xaaa Sal Xal After Ooa fezemeev 1 Pekln. May 3. (L ?. S.)' J a. m ' China today defied Japan by refusing absolutely to comply with some of the mikado's demands. While 'complying with 'some of the clauses- In, the Japaneae ultimatum, China definitely refuses .to accede to others, including the most Important embpdied in what Is known as .group Negotiations were broken "off ab ruptly by. President Yuan Shi Kat af ter he had thoroughly - discussed the entire situation, with the members of the Cabinet and his advisers. Should Japan present a stronger ultimatum it is probable that China would appeal to. the four powere : which . are not pledged to China's independence. w uwam j Baring. Earl Cromer's brother. .! to beconie a resident c-f Los Angeles,',- . Portland has some real actors Jn the police and detective bureaus, as shown j by th last performance of the com munity festival and, springtime Jubi- j lee given at the Orpheum theatre last night. " They put on an original sketch i enUtlediIw ciha;. Municipal jcourfc? 1 bringing laugh after laugh. . j " , , I :? Detectiva' f'Bill- Boyle layed the I part of ; a - soerowing rtaiian Arrested for putting a box of dynamite id the basement of the Wells Fargo build ing and played the. part to perfection. ' Detective Andy Vaughn was the judge' and not even his most intimate friends : knew hlmv in the part.1 . 1 Patrolman T. C Freiberg played the part of a colored man arrested for beating , his wife and. brought a num ber of laughs in telling of his do mestic troubles. Detective "Ackerman and Patrolmen Crane also had lead ing parts. Others in the sketch were Patrolmen FV. R, Ooldstone, Lloyd Cul linsy Bales and Sergeant. Jenkins. Rrs, Delphine ' Marx, ; eontralto, ac companied by. Mordaunt -Ooodnough at the piano, pleased th big audience with several well rendered numbers. Rhodes and Bullier In the latesV so ciety dances entertained wrth a num ber of specialties of ' their own.' The police - quartet. With Patrolman Robert Crane basso-baritone as solo 1st, was called on for a number of encores.!' The Silver Bell saxophone' quartet I gave some splendid music ; Three young ' men from : the T. M; C A., in a parallel, bar act. excited much Interest with their' difficult bar per. ; formances. ; ' . - ' ' .Then there was Fire Chief ; B. f, ' ("Biddy") Dowell wearing a smile which" refused to come .off, playing on his famous -harmonica. He was accompanied i by J, H. ETmmert. The Emmert children, Howard and "Velva, with. their clever work, brought forth much applause. ,1 i . ii Tootsie Williams waa seen in the highland fling and a difficult sword danc J. R .Werleln. he of the con tagious smile, was there as announced. 'The police band was . ai$o heard hi several well rendered numbers. Several hundred school children at tended the matinee held yesterday af ternoon. School . Children under the , direction of Robert Krohn. physical di rector . Of the schools, were seen in a variety of wand drills and gymnastic exercises. , Professor Borer " and the combined highj school choruses gave a number c t musieal selections, : while Beeman and. Anderson, f rorn the Pantages, give a novelty act on roller skates. The po lice band also' played. t Prominent Priest 1 1 Dies in Seattle rather Berglns ; Witnessed Ceremonies , of Traasf er ef aaaska te Vaited ' ' States Honored y Caar. y 4 Seattle. Wash., May 1. (U. P.). After a battle . lasting several Week; George - Krostrometinoff,- known - as Father Berglus, a priest of the Greek Catholic church, died at Providence hospital here tonight of ' cancer. The remains will be returned to Sitka. Al aska, where he was born, for burial. 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