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GOUPIION
VITAL, BRITISH
GENERAL SAYS
Lieutenant General Bridges
of War Commission Cites
English Mistake at Start
of War as Warning.
KITCHENER INNOCENTLY
RETARDED PROGRESS
English, He Says, Are Won
to Plan and Are Fanatics
Upon Subject.
By George Martin.
Washington. April 24. (U. P.)
Conscription is vital to America before
. the nation can have any success in
tha war.
Lieutenant-General Bridges stepped
out of the great international war
council of the allies here to deliver
thta message to the American people
today.
"While congress wrangled over the
selective conscription bill out'on Capi
tol hill, this tall, arrow-stra!ghtflght
er in Vhakl,. freah from the front.
counted the cost of the volunteer sys
tem to England.
"We were saddleS with the volun
,ter : system at the beginning of the
war," said Bridges. "We would have
given anything to get rid of It.
Volunteer system Retarded,
"It hampered and retarded 114 in
every phase of our war development.
"The volunteer system threw the
best industrial forces of the country
Into the trenches when they were
badly needed at home, and it left at
' home those whose 'places were at the
front,
- "It we had had conscription at the
beginning. It would have obviated our
later difficulties as to munitions, co
ordination of our national forces, and
many other vital things."
Then General Bridges sounded the
keynote of the British commission's
message to the American people.
. He said:
. "If yeu're going to. war you must go
the whole .Tiog.
Coteiail4 on Page Six. Column Xwe)
Fliers Attack
Destroyers, 1
Reported Sunk
Three British Aeroplanes Engage
Five' German Boats Off Zee-
brngge, "Says Admiralty.
London, April 24. (U. P.) A Ger
man destroyer is believed to have been
sunk In a fight with British aeroplanes
off Zeebrugge, the admiralty an
nounced tonight.
Five . enemy destroyers and three
aeroplanes were engaged in the fight.
The aeroplanes attacked the enemy
vessels "upon sighting them near the
coast. '
This is the first time an aeroplane
has been credited with sinking a vessel
as large as a destroyer. Reports of
aviators having destroyed submarines
have been received, but the aeroplane
destroyer engagement is probably the
first of the war.
FRENCH
WAR
MISSION
HAS ARRIVED SAELY
IN THE UNITED STATES
Party, Headed by Former
Premier Viviani, to Reach
. Capital Tomorrow,
GRANT DECISION
WILL IRK HEW
EPOCH IN STATE
Grip of Invisible Government
Has Been Still Further
Loosened From Throat of
the State of Oregon.
LONG FIGHT HAS BEEN
WON AGAINST BIG ODDS
Decision Is Popular Victory
Over the Railroad and Its
Vicious Practices.
Stroke of Pen
Provides Huge
Sum for War
President Wilson Signs $7,000,000,
000 Bill to Defray Expenses of
United States in Conflict.
Washington, April 24. (I. N. S.)
President Wilson created the biggest
war chest in history shortly before
rvoon today, when he attached his sig
nature to the bill which authorizes the.
raising of 7,000,000.000 to defray
America's expenses in entering the
war.
No formality attended the president's
action. ' He received the bill at the
White House, and in the seclusion of
his study read it and wrote "Woodrow
Wilson" at the bottom. No one waa
present.
TAN 0
OIL
Oli
TES
GASOLNETRADE
M MM WOULD
MM
EMMS
OF. DRAFT MEASURE
i .ii-
Proposes Amendment Creat-
- ing Tribunals to Regulate
Acceptance of Recruits.
Washington. April 24. (U. P.) The
French, commission coming here for
conferences with American and Eng
lish government officials has arrived
safely. The place of arrival is with
held. The mission will arrive in Washing
ton on the president's .private yacht
Mayflower, which will land the party
at the Washington navyyard tomorrow
morning, it waa learned this afternoon.
The state department issued the fol
lowing announcement today.
"The state department is advised of
the safe arrival of the French mission.
The party is not yet in Washington,
and all information as to their move
ments or time of arrival is kept secret
by the censorship.
Included in the French mission are
ex-Premier Viviani, General Joffre and
Major Dreyfus.
Third Assistant Secretary of State
Long, Colonel Cosby, Assistant Secre
tary of the Navy Roosevelt and Rear
Admiral Huse, are greeting the French
mission.
Today ends the festivities which
have marked the first part of. the
Jirltlsh war commission's visit here.
With the banquets and reception ten
dered in Balfour's, honor tonight, the
last, social note will be sounded and
grim business of war will predominate
henceforth.
At 11 o'clock today the full commis
sion went r into executive session to
map out'aplan for procedure for thei
conferences with United States gov
ernment officials.
Official announcement that the
French- commission has safely landed
assures full cooperation between the
three countries very soon.
The Oregon & California land grant
decision will stand as an epoch mark
in the history of Oregon. Because of
the conditions and influences that sur
rounded the ten-year war between the
public welfare on the one side and the
railroad's welfare on the other, the
victory for the public represented in
the decision of yesterday will take
rank in popular importance with the
initiative and referendum, the direct
primary and the direct election of
United States senators.
The long fight has been more than
a battle between the government arJ
the railroad to force the opening of the
grant lands to settlement. It has rep
resented the fight of the people to
secure the observance of law and the
protection of their legal rights against
the efforts of the railroad, with all the
secret influences at its command, to
disregard the law. The decision rep
resents a popular victory over the rail
road and its unlawful practices, the
midnight resolution, the land grant
conference of 1915 and the Bean bill
of7 the 1917 session, and all the sin
ister and secret influences that backed
sand promoted them.
Every Mots Opposed.
The history of the 10 years of liti
gation has been significant and as
tounding. Forced by the widespread
popular protest against the abuses of
Financing of Entente Planned.
Washington, April 24. (I. N. S.
Financing of the entente powers to
permit them to carry on the war
against Germany at top speed is to be
arranged with the least possible delay.
Arrangements for the first loan which,
contrary to expectations, will be to
Great Britain, now are well under
way.
It will be made In exchange for
British treasury bonds, which bear 3V&
per cent Interest, if the present ar
rangements are carried out.
The French loan also has been dis
cussed by Ambassador Jusserand and
Secretary McAdoo, but details con
cerning it are being deferred for the
present.
While the financing of the further
conduct of the war Is being arranged
the members of the British mission
today prepared to get down to business
along the lines planned for the several
sections. Secretary ' Balfour prepared
to apportion the work to his various
aides now that the social formalities
required by the international usage
have been completed.
PORTLAND WILL GET
SHIP FOR EACH WAY
BUILT OR BUILDING
Federal Trade Commission
Declares Refining, Pipe
line Transportation and
Marketing Controlled.
Sweeney to Teach U. S. Soldiers
X t X X XX X XXX
France "Loans" West Pointer
X XXX X X X X X X X X
Has Many Friends in Portland
Captain Charles Sweeney of the French army, a Spokane man, who
will teach American army officers fine points of trench warfare.
CORRECTIVE MEASURES
URGED UPON CONGRESS
Abolition Df Common Stock
Ownership in Dissolved .
Trusts Recommended.
Gasollaa Fries Advances.
Chicago. April 24. (I. N. S.)
Gasoline advanced from 19
cents to 20 cents a gallon in
Chicago today and with it other
oils aro expected to advance.
acordlng to an announcement
Issued by the Standard Oil com- '
pany.
"Washington, April 24.-(1. N. S.)
. Senator L Follette, leading pacifist
of the senate, broke into the consider-!
tion of the selective draft measure this
afternoon with an amendment radically
extending the exemptions from mil-
1 itary service provided for in the bill
Senators who read the amendment ex
pressed doubt whether the La Follette
exemptions would leave any men for
the army.
The La Follette amendment would
create a" local tribunal In each con
rresslonal district an appeal tribunal
in each state, and a central tribunal
for the nation, to regulate the accept
ance or recruits. The tribunals would
consist of five members each and would
bo appointed by the president.
Provisions of Amendment.
The local tribunals would have au
thority .to reject recruits on' four
grounds:
v 1. That it is expedient in the inter
est of ihe nation that the applicant
instead of being employed in the mill
tary service, be engaged in other work
In which he is habitually employed or
in which he wishes to be engaged, or
It he Is being educated or trained for
any work In which he should continue
to be . educated If trained.
2. That Serious hardship should en
sue, owing to his eaceptional financial
or business obligation or domestic po
sitlon. .
' 3. Ill health or infirmity.
4. Conscientious objection to war.
Jbat to tie Uncurbed.
Senator Chamberlain, in charge of
tha selective draft bill, told the senate
(Ccncluded'on Fg seventeen, Colcmo Slxj
ST. PAUL HOME
Ship Building Site
Tot Bala -Rouses. 61
LOT 91x160, 3 room house, pan
. try, bath. chicken houses,
yards, fruit and shade trees,
roses. S blocks Mt. Scott car.
$1260. $400 cash.
T'or Sals Business Property. 66
BUILD SHIPS For sale or lease,
best river frontage below Port-
land. ,
Acreage. 57
FOR SALE Best located acre In
Metsger, drilled well, fruit trees.
d e r r y
bushes.
fenced. Will sell
must move.
mall linn n a-
cheap, as i
Tor Bala Parma. 17
120 ACRES, Crook Co.. dairy
farm, full improvements, new
: house,- .'some registered cat-
- tie; a bargain. Price $6250. For
particulars.
Exchanrs aal Estate. 94
, WILL exchange beautiful home,
St. Paul, Minn., and house with
- . C acres near Ogden, Utah. Want
-''Stock ranch. -.y
There's a way to acquire Just
. the home that's your ideal locate
it through the Want Ads.
popular protest against tne aouses oilii r r r L I
the railroad company and its open, MeSSaSe I rOITI beni bOeclialS
flagrant disregard of the law In its . . rt , i iiii r
means ou vessels win oe
Constructed in Oregon.
administration and conduct of -the
grrant, the legislature of 1907 memor
ialized.' congress to institute proceed
ings for. the forfeiture of the grant, in
order that the vast tract might be
opened to settlement and cultivation.
Continued xa Psg Two, Column Four.) '
GIGANT1G
OFFENSIVE
BELIEVED BEGUN BY
ITALIANS
Portland will ret one ship for each
way iiow Tjuilt .er which caa te imme
diately built.
Major-General George W. Goethals
has so informed C. F. Swlgert, repre
sentative of the Chamber of Com-
imerce at Washington.
No yard will be given a wooden ves
sel to build unless such vessel can be
built in six to eight months.
The government will accept the
offer of the Chamber of Commerce to
act as a pjrehasing and disbursing
bureau for the work, and if the cost
is satisfactory will finance the work.
Sixty Ships May Be Built.
Under these circumstances, the
government also stands ready to pro-
5-
m
- X
BRITISH
AT ALL
POINTS OF LINE
Great Gain Made in Thrust
Against the Cambrai-St.
" Quentin Line Where Haig's
Forces Reach Canal.
Washington. April 24. lU. P.)
That Standard Oil interests substan
tially dominate the gasoline industry
was the finding of the federal trade
commission, transmitted In its report
to the senato today.
Refining, pipeline transportation and
marketing of the finished product, the
commission declares, are controlled by
the "oil octopus."
Real competition does not exist be
tween the various Standard Oil com
panies because of interlocking stock
ownership, through majority share
holdings by identical interests, the re
port says. Respite the dissolution of
the so-called "oil trust" by the su
preme court, the commission has con
cluded that Standard Oil domination
has a "fundamental bearing" on gaso
line prices, declared to have been arbi
trarily increased.
Legislation to meet the conditions
is strongly recommended by the com
mission. With this in view, all evi
dence and findings have also been
transmitted to the attorney genera
for action. . Standard Oil refineries
produced more than 60 per cent of the
(Continued on I'ag Two. Oolunn Tttr) .
Shipping Board Is
Planning More Work
Brent Sees no Season Way JTorthwest
Builders Should Hot Proceed With
Ships of Standard Design.
Washington, April 24. (WASHING
TON BUREAU OF THE JOURNAL. )
Vice Chairman Brent of the federal
shipping board has wired Harry L.
Corbett. president of the Portland
Chamber of Commerce, to the effect
that its program is to supplement
private construction. He sees no reason
why northwest builders should not
proceed with ships of standard design.
The board will assist in securing
engines, but may also need engines for
Its own use now if it can secure them.
Consideration will be given toward
furnishing capital for operation of
ships.
Brent's telegram is not considered
an altogether satisfactory answer to
questions asked by the Portland Cham
ber of Commerce- as to government
attitude toward the Max Houser plan
of shipbuilding through public sub
scription; also If the government's
prospective needs would permit of Im
mediately proceeding on lecal ship
building, what guaranty of motive
power the government might furnish,
and whether a Joint operating fund
might be created by government and
local appropriation. W. D. B. Dodson,
secretary of the Chamber of Com
merce, said further telegraphic corre
spondence would be necessary in order
to get desired clarity of answers to
the chamber's questions.
rMii r rrA i j: igovemm
UlbpaiUlrJS riUIII riUlll IllUI-lvlde the necessary labor.
pate Sudden Activity Upon
Austrian Border,
Rome, April 24.-MU. P.) The bat
tle in the Carso is becoming increas
ingly violent. IMspatches from the
front today Indicated a terrific fire
from tho Italian artillery and " en
larged on the splendid morale of the
Italian troops. General Cadorna was
quoted as expressing the utmost con
Portland shipbuilders have received
no message of greater Import since
the shipbuilding business first started
flourishing.
It means that the S3 ways in nine
shipyards on the Columbia and the
Willamette river will each receive a
3500-ton ship to build. Two . new
yards of four ways each have been
announced. .- nd the nine now in opera
tion can expand possibly 18 ways. In
all probability 60 vessels will be con
structed here.
Committee Benews Work.
It means that the labor scarcity
which had been feared will not de
velop, as there should be little trouble
in securing the 2000 additional men
that would be needed.
The message also shows that the
preparedness steps taken by the Cham-
FUTILITY OF BEAN'S
LAND GRANT BILL IS
EXPOSED BY DECISION
Attorney General Brown De
clares Vote of People Will
Make No Difference.
2- - ! It - - A. -
feVflf ;l.;t i--x-A A! I
BITTER FIGHTING GOES
ON NEARLY ALL JJ1GHT
More Than 1500 'Germans
Taken Prisoners During
Past 24 Hours.
London, April 24.-KU. P.) Field
Marshal Halg gained more ground in
the resumed British of tensive" today. '
"We made further progress to the
east of Monchy le Preux and Roeux."
, the statement said. "To the south of
, the Bapaume-Cambrai road we gained
ground on a wide front. To the east
of Epehy we reached the St. Quentin
canal, in the neighborhood of Vend
huile. We also captured the villages .
of Vlllers Ploich and Beaucamp."
"There was severe fighting yester
day evening and at Intervals during
the night along the whole front,"
Halg's report continued. "At Croisilles
and north of Gavrelle. the enemy con
stantly repeated unsuccessful counter
attacks, determinedly and regardless
of losses. Positions we gained yester
day we maintained. Particularly vio
lent counterattacks at Gavrelle were
successfully beaten off.
Xjarge Bumber of Prisoners Taken.
"Yesterday's prisoners exceeded
1S00, including 30 officers. More are
being taken today."
The greatest gain which the British
push achieved today was in the thrust
against the Cambral-St. Quentin line.
Halg's report curtly mentioned his
forces had reached the St. Quentin
canal in the neighborhood of Vendbulle.
(The St. Quentin canal runs from
near Lecatelet. on the Escaut ' river,
almost parallel to the Cambral-St.
Quentin road, southward to the last
named city. Vendhulle is located di
rectly on the canal, 10 miles south of
Cambrai.)
Vlllers Ploich has been closely la
vested by British troops for four or
.. (Cootlnqed ,wo, Column. Tlr .
THREATS OF RAIN DO
NOT STOP PLANS FOR
There have been several indications
recently that Italy was about to start
a great offensive in the Carso and the
lista.tch &.hnv nnno rmr 1 1 v h.ara - Ant
this belief, although the Italian cen-!ber of- Commerce, with the idea of
German War Office
Admits Keverses
Berlki. April 24 (I. N. S.) British
gains on the Cambrai-Arras road were
admitted by the German war office to
day. Capture of the village of Gue-
mappe also was admitted. The village
had been reduced to ruins by the fight
ing before the Germans gave It up, it
was said.
An attempt of the British to break
through the German lines near Arras
was repulsed with heavy losses, ac
cording to the war office communication.
Kaiser's Second Son
Is Reported Dead
London, April 24. (I. N. S.) A dis
patch to the Chronicle from Copen
hagen today reports that Prince Eitel
Friederich, second son of the kaiser. Is
dead. ' It is unconfirmed. Typhus was
given as the cause. . .
- Prince Eitel Frederich was born in
1383 and has been at the front since
the war started. '
eor evidently does not permit direct
statement to this effect.
Prior to the start of the British
drive early in March, Swiss reports
declared Field Marshal von Hindenburg
was massing great oodles or troops on
the Italian,- front, presumably preparing
for a German drive, but recently, it is
believed, most of these men have been
transferred back to the western front
to aid in opposing the Franco-British
offensive.
Howard Elliott to
Quit as R. R, Head
New York, April 24. (I. N. S.) At
a meeting here today of the board of
directors of the New York. New Haven
&. Hartford Railroad Co.. the resigna
tion of Howard Elliott as president, to
take effect May 1, was accepted.
Several days ago Mr. Elliott, In a
statement, intimated he intended re
tiring, in order to give more of his
time to the assistance of the national
council of defense. F. J. Pearsons,
vice president of the company and Mr
Elliott's assistant, in charge of gen
eral construction, operation and main
tenance,, was elected president to suc
ceed him.
Spain Sends Note
On Divergfto Kaiser
Madrid. April 24. (I. N. S.) Srain
has sent another note to Germany on!
tne submarine situation, according to
El Imparcial today. No hint of the
contents was given.
shipbuilding, were well founded.
The committee went at its work
with renewed vigor upon receipt of
this message from Mr. Swigert. The
work being assured, it is expected that
the cutting of long timbers will be
started shortly and that work will be
rushed on new ways and new yards.
Nehalem Bay Has
Delegate at Capital
Washington, April 24. (WASHING
TON BUREAU OF THE JOURNAL.)
Frank A. Rowe of Wheeler. Or.,
banker and secretary of the Nehalem
port commission, is here to present
data to the army engineers on Ne
halem bay Improvements and to ap
pear before the shipping board to urge
the building of submarine chasers on
Nehalem bay.
Three Powder Mill
Employes Killed
Birmingham, "Ala.,. April 24. (I. N.
S.) Three men were Instantly killed
today .by an explosion of undetermined
cause at the Jefferson powder mill of
the "Aetna,: Explosives" company
Major Willis May Be Promoted.
. Washington, April 24. (WASHING
TON BUREAU OF THE JOURNAL)
Representative Hawiey win urge
the promotion of Major Percy Willis
to brigadier Major Willis is a native
of Salem, served with the Oregon reg
iment In 'the Philippines and was sta.
tioned for several years at Fort Stev
ens. '
British Tramp Puts
Hole Through Diver
An American Port. April 24. (I. N.
S.) Officers of the British freight
steam eT Dundrennan, which has ar
rived here told today of a thrilling
fight with a German submarine, which
they believed was destroyed as a re
sult of the marksmanship of the Dun
drennan's crew. - , ,
The steamer was attacked in the
Mediterranean and more than 30 shots
are said to have been.exchanged. The
last shot, which hit the. submarine,
caused a terrific explosion in her in
terior. - The freighter made away with
out waiting to ."see- whether her ad
versary 'was'fataWydamagea?''-''
OPENING
Pacific Coast Man Who Won Cross of Legion of Honor, Clubs Arrive on Time and
Salem, Or.. April 24. The foolish
ness of the notorious Bean bill, which
was forced through the legislature by
Representative L. E. Bean of Lane
county, aided by President Gus Moser
of the senate and others in the organi
sation, - now stands, fully revealed by
the decision of the United States su
preme court in the Oregon & Califor
nia land grant case. .
This is the substance of comment
heard here today. Yet the Bean bill.
which .the Oregon legislature referred
to the people, will go upon the ballot
at the special June election..
Attorney General Brown says that
the opinion that he has repeatedly an
nounced that the Bean bill can have
no effect upon the title to the grant
lands, apparently has been confirmed
by the supreme court.
The Bean bill is oased upon the
declaration that the title to the 2,300.-
000 acres In the land grant rested in
the railroad company and that there
fore the assessors should place the
lands on the tax rolls. The bill as
sumes that the Chamberlain-Ferris
act, which revests title to the lands
in the government and has Just been
upheld by the United States supreme
court, is unconstitutional.
The attorney general points out that
no matter which way the people of the
state vote on the Bean bill it will
make no difference, except that If it
is approved It may put the state or
some one else to some expense in
going through the legal procedure of
having the supreme court declare the
Bean bill unconstitutional In order to
keep it from cluttering up the statutes.
Turks Are Defeated
At Samara Station
' London. April 2. (U. P.) Occupa
tion of Samara station and a vast haul
of supplies from the defeated Turks
was announced in an official statement
today.
. "We occupied Samara station early
yesterday," the statement said, "Our
cantures include IS locomotives. 224
railway wagons and two barges con
talnlng munitions.
"The enemy casualties were heavy.'
Samara station is 65 miles nortn
west 'of Bagdad and is an Important
center, located on the Tigris river.
Croix de Guerre and Medaille Militairelto. Help
the American Army.
New York. April 24. (I. N. .8.) bies." the caterpillar tanks which have
Parade Through Streets
Heads Toward Ball' Park.
France has "loaned" her first American
to the United States war department in
the person of Captain Charles Sweeney
of Spokane, Wash., to teach the new
army of the western hemisphere the in
tricacies of trench warfare in Europe.
Captain Sweeney, who has Just arrived
here, is- the first citizen of the United
States to win the cross of the Legion
of Honor.
He is a graduate of West Point. He
enlisted in the French army. After a
series of exhibitions of gallantry he
was made a second lleuteannt, and then
promoted to the command j of a com
pany. - ' '
Captain Sweeney recently has been In
command of a squadron of "iron ba-
Germany Would Be
Rid of Reporters
The Hague, April 24. (U. P.) The
German foreign office has notified all
remaining American newspapermen- in
Germany that their presence in the em
pire Vi no longer desirable," 'according
wrought such havoc on the western i
It took something stronger than
trace of rain to stop the plans for
front. Besides the Legion dHonneur. the ooeninir of the baseball season in
he has received the Croix de Guerre Portland today. A few drops of rain
(Cross of War) and medaille milltaire fell this morning, thereby keeping up
(military medal). Captain L. Corkina a record of four years of precipitation
of Oklahoma City, formerly a physfaUn on the opening day in Portland. Three
with the Serbian army, also arrived seasonsago it rained during the pa-
New York today. Tad-tTut cleared up and the game was
f 1 tameu vii. ah iuiu m.
Captain Sweeney was
the Foreign Legion, and was the first
man ever to have received a commis
sion in a foreign country during the
war. He is a West Pointer of 10 1
years ago. He was last in Portland
over a year ago, when he came to see
his father, and gave a graphic account
or his adventures In France at a din
ner given in his honor here.
STRIKERS
GERMAN
MUNITIONS
PLANTS
ARE GIVEN
WARNING
Factories Under Martial Law
and Persons Who Disobey
Will' Be Sent to . Front,
SINKING
RUSSIAN
OF
STEAMER CARRYING I
EXILES STIRS FEELING
postponed the opening game a day,
The parade this afternoon started at
1 o'clock, and proceeded through the
principal business streets, going out
Alder street to the ball park.
The Portland club arrived this mom
ing and through the courtesy of the
Pullman and the railroad companies,
the specie,! car carrying the San Fraa
cisco ball club, was switched on the
mail train so that the players arrived
here shortly after 10 a. m.. Instead of
being on the delayed train due arounl
12:15. ,
When the parade started at Four
teenth and Morrison streets. Frank D.
ennessey. garbed as Uncle Sam, In
hich he made an imposing appearance
n the Patriotic parade, led the column.
Behind him were three girls, repre
senting the colors of the flag. A line
of policemen and the Third Oregon -band
followed. President Baum of the
Coast league. President Berry of the
San Francisco club, and President .W.
W. McCredle of the Portland club oc-
Rotterdam. April 24. (L N. 8.)
Munitions factories throughout Ger
many are being put under martial law.
Proclamations were posted today in
the great German weapon and muni
tion factory at Borlin that any man
who undertakes to strike in the future
will Immediately be sent to the firing
line, says a dispatch from the fron-1
tier. Socialists are being warned.
Duke of Abruzzi Is
To Come on Mission
Paris. April 24. (I. N. 8.) The
Duke of Abruzzi, cousin ' to King Vic
tor Emmanuel, is to be sent to the
United States on a mission, according
to a dispatch from Borne today.
Americarf Flier
Killed in Action
Paris, April 24. (I. N. S.) Captain
Ronald Hoskler of South Orange, N. J.,
a member ,of the air .corps . of the
French' army, has ; been killed In ac-
German Diver Held Respon- gj SSSJLi
sible for Death of Men Op- !Sia?Va?wSf
posed to Autocracy. l , ; .
tawm uenoy, ob,
Millionaire, Enlists
to word received here today, -. ' - J tloo.'.it'Vwaa 'announced .today.
Copenhagen, April, 24. (I. N. S.)
The Russian steamship Zara has been
sunk by a German submarine with
severe loss of life. Among the victims New York, April 24. (I. N. 8.)
were a number of political exiles, who The enlistment as a private, fn the
were returning to Russia, say a dls- United States marine corps at Detroit,
patch from Petrograd today. Mich., of ex-Congressman Edwin Den-
Nlcholas Karpovich, - a well known by was announced . by marine . corps
Socialist, who has been compelled to officials here today. Mr. Denby, who
leave Russia for his activities against is a multi-millionaire. Is (b years of
tne oia autocracy, was xuiea. News age, and served in congress from ltOZ
of his death has had the effect of to 1911.
stiffening the resolution of the Rus
sian Democrats to continue the war
until victory 1 gained, the Petrograd
advices say..
Defense Guard f or
California Is Asked
State Capitol. Sacramento, Cal.
April 24. (P. N. 8.) In a special
message to the legislature, Governor
William D. Stephens today asked for
the enactment of a law providing for
a state defense guard of 1000 men.
A bill designed to carry out the gov
ernor's : wishes was introduced In the
senate: Immediately ; after 'tha ' gov
ernor's, message was read.'V . y
Kaiser Has Been
Advised to Step
Down, It Is Said
Paris, April 24. (L N. 8.)
Ik At a council of the Hohensol- t
lent family, shortly after the - Mt
jt entrance of the United States:- -m
m into the war, the kaiser was ad- '
vised to abdicate, according- to m
it a dispatch' from Rome today,
Ht which quoted the Italian news
4k paper Corners DItalia as its
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