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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL PORTLAND, : THURSDAY. APRIL 4, 1918. f I i J I r. i GERMAN WORKERS' i STRIKE ATTEMPT TO FORCE PEACE Utters Taken From German Pris oners Reveal Magnitude! of February Labor Disputes. RICH FEAR GENERAL STRIKE ( socialists Were Insistent Against Sacrifice , of Another Million l Men That Could Not End War. (Ta fntlowln artlela daerlbtnt tonAMnoa in t Garraany a f aw-waafca ho, M wmW by tha h Oaraana thamarlTaa. ahowa ' aoma of tha rea ana war the German fetch command was WU. ln . to rUk ar.rrUiIng to , fnrca as aaMy da te etalos an th mit front. ' It daala escloaiTalr m with tit f aarl ttrikea la Oamanjr dun of f , Br Henry aod , ti With the French. Armies in the yield, March 1S.-(U. P.) (By Mall) this la 3 tha real story of tha atrlkee which took ? place In . Germany during February as r told by thai Germane themselves, Although tthe German censorship sup-' By ircaou at utv win v u vuv i it V iiuiai pvr 1 functory news concerning the Strike It did not aucceed In keeping- the German people from writing to their fathers, aona and brothers at the front, telling c. them what had happened. Hundreda of these letters were later taken from Sc;erman prisoner's . captured by tha French In scores of ralda during Febru ' ary and March, 5 While the admlsalorMs made In these f. letters that tha strikes failed to attain y their end, open declaration la made that v they are only the forerunner of more y serious demonstrations. Extracts Irom a these letters follow: Tramwaya Demolished at Berlin J -J Wannsee (Suburb of Berlin), Feb; 7. ' The workmen did not caln anything - from their! strike at Berlin, and. un- f" fortunately, two policemen were killed and several wounded. Several electric tramways were demolished, but' order " has been restored now and the factories a era working as .usual. The leader of ' J the strike,! Deputy Dettman, received X f'va years' Imprisonment as punishment. - Ootha, Feb. 14. You have undoubted ly already I learned that striked took J place In all the cities and villages, and y It was the same here. We had six days , V of alarm, but nothing happened. Socialists Oppose Farther Sacrifice Dollsteln, Feb. 15. The it hare on leave of absence. stman Is told me no, lie 'ill. CONTINUOUS 11 TO 11. . ; j AWbriderfuill EMI ' ' ' !; ( ) Now Playing s'm I norma ;;y .M.X li j TALMADGE ( J'M V i all IN ' j I ' j .1 Purchase "-M i'k l and . . ; r'A-Xy',; i :.VJ' . l ll 7 a. a. "l.,' v. . . f,U -( "''y I ArbncMe v; .f "1 ' S f- yll N t'l , V... ! "THE " i ) r V ; : A ' ILBELL :a V .r. K ; 1 . BOY" -;1 V' .rT ... A' i II ' , s a 1 II NOYON CATHEDRALS BURNING i Ya !.: 5 i . . , Airplane view of Noyon, with I la ; showing til the upper center of i the German lines: and the German tne cathedral. today that where he comes from, Mu nich, wa cannot make another offensive, and that, even if wa arrive at Paris, our enemies still would not make peace, and then all the workmen Jn the Ger man empire would go on strike, for the last strike was merely a test to see if everyone was agreed. The Socialists fnslst they will not allow another mil lion men to be sacrificed, because It still would not end the war. . Coblens, Feb. 8. A. big atrlke haa broken at Berlin, Hamburg and Pussel dorff and in tha other large cities. You are not allowed to say what has taken place. But we have remarked this fact, namely that we have not succeeded. The strike was suppressed early and tha con sequences naturally are ? that those who participated are ' incorporated now and obliged to serve the empire. My brother Frederick writes that the situation In Berlin was very grave. The soldiers V 1 A I V,-' I 4 4 1 V "5 . M ...J... Siaw s yi;;iv.miyiwf;4vti;,l.lMi) y8Bg-..ijS!!;;!S.;!t H famous : eleventh century cathedral the picture. : Noyon Is now within s claim French shells set fire: n-.,. ... ., " "T w . - FT' nvaa. Intlit -on Makla Feaee i lAnwega, Feb, t At Berlin tha work men have gone on strike. It seems that it, was rather serious, for tha strikers went so far as to parade in tha streets, carrying tha red flag. At Berlin alone, between 160,000 and 190.000 workmen I participated : In tha atrlke. There was i trouble In tha other eitles and villages aa welL Tha workmen insist on making peace. :- Apolda. Feb. 2. The situation la very ! critical In Germany for at Berlin, Leip- sig ana Jena a great many workmen have rone on atrlke. t v Gunterhausen, Feb. I. Thursday : and Friday there was a grand demonstra tion. The workmen from the factories went on strike and marching to the I city hail, demanded a more abundant rood- ration. . - Kick Afraid of ceaerai striae - - Burembura-. Feb. LThft rich- are afraid of a general strike en masse. People parade tha street now carrying banner with tha motto. "Liberty for Llebknecht" the Socialist leader). PlatHnar - Vah. ' fl Th Situation WSR critical her where we live for several days. You have undoubtedly heard of re - in nearly an tne cities ana tiur the workmen went on strike It la fin ished for the present, I am tola, ine Socialists Insist on making peace, . Nurembura. Feb. IL I know nothing especially about tha strike. At Aegen inburg rive orators spoKe at tne same time and tha worklnrmen and workinr- womf n paraded the streets carrying Danners wnicn reaa. - r eace rn.na no erty." , Alumeau. Feb. - 101 am told that fjoula must leave for the front. He had quit the service of equipment They are incorporating an the men nere on account or tne atme. : HUNS SEND WAR CHIEF OF EAST TO WEST LINE (Oettttaaad frets Pas Onal Picardy drive, allied diplomats eald to day. ' - . - Voit Mackensen la considered aa the ablest of the Kaiser's generals, but for some time has been in bad favor at court. Hta presence on the weet front would indicate, diplomats say. that Ger many Is about to play her last card In Franca. - Paris. AprQ . (L N. S. Germany la expected to renew her offensive to day or tomorrow. Military critics to day see in the heavy artillery firing reported along the Picardy front the kaiser's preliminary , move in another effort to smash forward to Amiens. British and French headquarters officials are supremely confident. Tha lull of the past few days haa permitted the allies to bring their reserves up and place them where desired without Interference. The enemy will rind his attempts to smash forward strongly opposed at every point, critics - declared today, and belief was confidently ex pressed that at no place would tho Germans make any material gain. General Fooh s confident statement to Rene Renoult, president of tha army committee, who accompanied Premier Clemeneau to tha front, cheered the I country today, "Wa can henceforth regard the fu tura with tranquility,'' Renoult Quoted the French generalissimo as telling him. Ha also -said that General Foch went stronger and pictured tha altuatlon ' aa being better than . it has at any time since the aermane started their big drive. " ,.. It is agreed on every side that tha Germana will launch another attack on great scale. Critics assert that It cannot be as heavy sa tha original ef forts because or their great loss of men. They say it is this, coupled with the fact that tha French and British have got their reserves Into line, which will make it impossible for tha . Ger mans to make any further headway. - Abet Ferry, xormer under secretary for foreign affaire, makes tha flat state ment in an article in todays Petit Jour nal that the Germane lost tha battle of Picardy on Monday and Tuesday of this week, just as they lost tha battle , of Verdun on February 14. immediate ly after capturing Fort Douamont. The enemy, ha declared, did not follow up turn success a 1 veraun wnen tne French reserves were not on the scene. It waa a race to bring up reservea there, he de- ciarea, ana tne French won It, just as taey nave aona in tha present atruggle. With tha French reservea now avail able, he declared, each German division now faces an allied division equal to any. effort the Germans may, make. . f " " ' " ' ' ' Amiens Objective ot Germans : ' By Henry Wood With tha French Armies in tha Field. April 3 U. P.) Military men regard the first stags of tha German offensive as having ended, similarly to the first stage of the battle of the Somme. Tha oermana are not likely to be able to renew tha offensive before the ex piration of three-day interval, when they will probably attack again. with Amiens as their objective. The allies are thoroughly nrenared. although the enemy so far has engaged ivu divisions u.ruu.uuu men, or whic. a fourth have been smashed up and withdrawn. Massing for Drive on Venice Washington Aoril 4 fl. tt. a il . While the. Anglo-French forces are hold ing the Germans In Picardy, General Foch la reported in dispatches received here today to be preparing to strike, probably at another point of the lino. All along- the western front the big gun's of tha contending forces are re- poriea in use. urnis bombardment pre aagea another -effort to break thmuah by -the Germans It is believed by army ouicera nere, out mere la no apprehen sion aa to the result. Rather, the In terest here la In what the allied forces will do, now : that they are under th supreme direction of one man. it is believed here that. Inasmuch as General Foch has not Instituted a aua. tained counter-offensive sJonar the ri crty ireni, ne will not do BO HOW. Army officers pointed out today - that such a counter-offensive, to be most ef fective, must in its very nature be de livered while the opposing forces were completely exhausted by the violence of their own offensive and before they have had opportunity to dig In. As this waa not dona, it is assumed that Gen eral Fooh believes that the entente should strike elsewhere, where the chances of gaining ground that would 09 ei strategic value would be better than In driving the Oermana tAir across the shell plowed hills of Picardy. ; While watchinr the western rmn army-officers' today were also deeply mionun in wm developments In Italy. It la believed br that the Austrians wui mutate a new offensive directed against Venice Tiihln the next 10 days. Already the flpWts show Thev h... massed some 50 lidistona of reserves at innumerable bat -"- . urviUQ( ID of Skoda runs with which to attempted. rt any operations Hans Lose 1000' s of Trenche 1 London, April- Germans are grac ly getting their big guns into Uona-. the line of ut their progress the Picardy. battle. is not nearly so rapid: as had been ex pected, and they are therefore . having to rely to a remarkable extent ou machine gun fire, according to reports from British, headquarters today.. v New Zealandere who went over the top and captured r 1000 ' yards of Ger man front trenches after they, had been yielding doggedly for' days.' got 200 prisoners and more than a hundred machine guns, an unusual concentra tion of such guns, considering the length of the position taken. Stories coming- in from press head' quarters ' revealed ' the " falsity of the German claims - of heavy captures of prisoners. The assault on' Arras' and Vlmy Ridge, touted by the German wireless 'aa a victory although the Germans filled to take the famous ridge. Is generally recognised at head quarters as one of the bloodiest and most disastrous defeats ever - Inflicted on the enemy by British troopa. i The punishment which the Teuton 1 masses have sustained is revealed in a. startling way by - the - fact that one battalion near t Vauix-Vralcourt used TSiei UDO aia jf m placea D JOHNSON OPPOSES BAN ON CRITICS 1 ewBaasaaaaaaaMaKevSBBaBria ' - California Senator Insists Bill Aimed at. Opponents of War Goes Tod Far. Washington,! April .--at. . P.) That an attempt IS being made to suppress the freedom of the American press and to prevent any man expressing legiti mate criticism" of the government was the charge voiced In the senate today by Senator Johnson of California. s Johnson ODoosed tha bill nunishlnff br 20 years' imprisonment and $10,000 fins any utterance or publlo statement 1 de rogatory to this a-overnment r ecalcu lated to Inflame or incite resistance to federal or state authorities." ins enect or tnisi would be to pre vent men thinking jfleclared Johnson. "It is an attempt to make the press sub servient to those in power. This bill, we are told, is to prevent proGerroans ln- terrermg with the Liberty loan, but that is not its real purpose. Fling Taken at Creel - ! TJnder it, any worii spoken or printed In criticism of activities of any govern ment department would make a man guilty of a. crime and. send him to jail tor zv years. i yield to no man in my desire to see the most severe penalties visited upon the pro-Germans or.On anyone who re- us in tna great adventure on wnicn we nava embarked, and If this bill did that I would favor it. But X cannot and will not vote fori the measure la its present form, i . j "And when those advocates refer to its opponents, as they doubtless will, as men who are hamperlne- tha oroaacu. tion f tha war, I beg they will givs ma uue . mucn praise that though I op pose this bill, I am leaving tha senate now to spend several days working on uio iiDeriy loan. 1 1 .w.ant know George Creel woutan 1 do subject! to this law," in quired Senator Watson, . Indiana. Creel Editorial Is Bead Wataon then read an editorial 'alleged to have been, written by Creel whea he was a newspaper editor in Colorado. The editorial waa entitled "Ballots or Buuetajt and contained a sc.'ere criti cism of the United States senate. Do wa really enjoy any greater lib erty than the subjects of the csarT' " wataon quoted Creel's editorial. "The United States senate; la a body that alts In deaootism In nowiaa n,Mt.i. responsioie to toe people,' " ha continued. - 'T ..k AM (ltA.1.1 ... .. bw.m u- nuwitu tv u written to day; tha author could be sent to tha penitentiary," asserted wataon. "Undoubtedly - he should be and he ougnt to xe,7 -interrupted senator Borah Calling Creel ' "a ! anlvelinr inurtr 1 Wataon demanded that the senate have mm removea rrom orrice. "A man who haa written thlns-s whteh. under the pending bill, would land him in jmu, m .iwv un man to DO tne mOUUl- piece of the democracy he haa ao vilai condemned in his writings." said Watson. Qas Company to Be In New Home Soon ; V , ., , -1,-' -: v v FaniBg Bnliaing Expected to Be Beady for Oeespaaey Abost April 16 1 Bail- nets Growth VeeesslUtes Ckaage. The Portland Gas A Coke comoany and the Pacific Power Jb xaht comoanv will move thelr general offices to the railing building. Fifth and Alder atreeta, about April IS. The sales rooms of the gaa company jwlll be moved from Fifth and Yamhill streets to the base ment of the Falling building. A nve year lease of the basement. portion of the first floor and all of the second, third and fourth floors of the Falling building, haa been secured by President Guy. Talbot -of both com panies. Workmen have been busy for several weeks fitting up the new home. The basement is 50 by 100 feet and af fords ample room for display and aales room a The first floor will house the cashiers offices. Entrances will be from both Fifth and Alder streets. - The corner, now occupied by Samuel Rosen blatt & Co., will. It is expected, be occu pied by the companies at a later date. The second floor will be occupied, by the. bookkeeping, commercial and oper ating officea of the gaa company and similar offices for the use of the Pacific Power St Light company will be located on the third floor. Offices of the president, board of di rectors and attorneys of the two com. parties will be on the fourth floors In crease In the business, of the two con cerns necessitates greater floor space. according to preaiaent Talbot. Dutch Jake' Coines To See Grandchild Jacob Goets, owner and manager of the Coeur d'Alene (hotel In Spokane, la in Portland to visit his daughter, Mrs. E. E. Edmunds and his new granddaugh-1 ter who arrived recently. Mr. Goets Is known to hundreda of people, throughout Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho aa "Dutch Jake."k title which he Is proud . of. He is accompanied by P. J. Maggy of the Hercules mines. Mr. Goets also has extensive mining Interests In Idaho. Mr. Goets and Mr. Maggy are stopping at the Portland hotel. They are old friends of Edward Boyce, presi dent of the hotel company. over a quarter of a minion rounds of small 1 ammunition In a single day. The targets all day Jong were .solid masses of men. . As jnany as . six separate attacks In ; force ' rolled, up against British lines and were mowed down by methodical and . deadly fire, or beaten at the trenches by rifles, while engineers and all other available branches were armed and stood j shoulder to shoulder witn tne reguiara. i - , . ; - 1 ' ! To facilitate ' the handling of large articles while being knit a woman has patented a tubular holder on which they can be rolled and held with 1a flexible i strip, of metaL What Doctors tJse icf or Eczema ' ' Assettaagcesibiaatieaefettef Wis- , ' , tergreea. Glycerine and ether fceeUag -' i 'ingredients called 0. D. D. rreeerlptlea lls new a favorite remedy efskla special. ' - iste for all akin diseases. 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