THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL PORTLAND, : THURSDAY. APRIL 4, 1918.
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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.
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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
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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. .
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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
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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
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JOHNSON OPPOSES
BAN ON CRITICS
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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
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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 - , .
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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
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- iste for all akin diseases. It penetrates -
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Gang of Burglars
. Uanght Alter Jobs
, Chehalis. Wash; April 4. Wednesday
when Tad Behrend opened hla clothing
store b found. that burglars had ran
sacked tha place, taking a lot of over
coats And other goods and 13.15 in cash.
Tha burglars walked to Kapavlne and
stole two automobiles and later were
captured by Deputy Sheriff N Winn of
Chehalis. They admitted their
guilt..
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said to have been made by hand in
1851. was among the curios left by the
late General Robert Burns Brown of
this city. - The 17-year-old weed la
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France, the Women's Overseaa Hospital
Unit which is financed by wealthy New
Yorkers and la In the service of tha
French government. Miss Kastham haa
written of her trip across and later from
Paris, where aha waa waiting orders to
go to the front. They expected to sea
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