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I : war features' mTSi ivn$n?rr rTinTI ifiltltfMliMt Tbb MTu'li Plctsre-Page M, See. t. ?VV VJ y . THE WEATHER Portias asd vieiaity Sudsy fair, i gesUe northwesterly li(k - Oregea Waaslsgtoa SiaAay fair . ul mir exeest acar coast. Gratis -westerly wist. VOL. XVI. NO. 18. CITY EDITION PORTLAND. OREGON, SUND AY MORNING. JULY 2V 1818. PRICE FIVE CENTS GERMANIUM FRANCO-AMERICAN COUNTER ATTACK , B LACK line shows the battle front in Belgium and France as it was when the allied counter offensive was begun Thursday between the Aisne and the Maine, which since has extended re highway was a major objective and the shaded section indicates the advance made by the allies between those points. To the eastward the enemy is retiring beyond the Marne. " Powers Beaten flii;nRiWFsJfwv. nrnnrnrnn Mm 'MM " bm UIIM I h U II IILI UIIILIII iilli uiiiul. ngu FORCMlORET 115 Civilian Population Unable to Withstand Ravages of War Much Longer, Is Claim. - Mafne Front Proving Far More Serious Than German Offen sive It Stopped on Thursday. i After Hours of Terrific Fighting Along 15-Mile Front the Huns More Rapid; Disaster Impends. Washington, July 20. Astounding proof that the nations of the central powers are rapidly crumbling and that their civilian population cannot with stand the ravages of war more than two years longer, was disclosed today by Dr. Raymond Pearl, statistician of the food administration. Through comparison of data leathered by agents of the allied governments and the United. States, statistician have American and French Smash on established the following conclusions: The net decrease In birth rates in 1917 was 48 per cent in Germany and 64 per cent in Hungary. The net decrease in England and France .was 24 per cent. Germany's loss in population was 40.- 000 per 1,000,000. Hungary's, 70,000 per 1,000,000, and England's, 10,000 per 1,000,000. , The marriage rate in England showed a marked Increase but the rate In the central powers declined sharply. G;., j D. DfiAnmAA great decrease in me mortality rate IVe Way and Hetreat becomes m England coupled with the increased marriage rate will result in a net in crease in population in the British isles as a result of the war. War greatly Increases the death rate among all persons of 70 years or over. due -to worry and nervous excitement. The marriage rate of any country is the surest indication of the morale of the nation. Deaths among the soldiers of all na tions, with the possible exception of Germany, are hot greater than if the men were in civil life, due to the in creased health conditions. 6DES OVER 1 Mil FIELD OF BATTLE Shells Scream Overhead as Trip Is Made Behind the Advancing Americans; German Dead Seen in Thick Piles on All Sides. W By Lowell Mcllett flTH the French Armies in the Field, July 20. (U. P.) The Germans sovth of the .. Marne have been completely de feated ' and are relocating across the river before the Franco-American drive. : - The allies began their advance between Fossoy and Queilly to day. The enemy's dogged 'resist - ance was unable to withstand the pressure of this 15 mile assault and the Germans retreated slow ly northward,, contesting every foot i . After hours of ssnrutnarr flghtinr. the Boche retirement becsme more rapid snd israe elements began to recross the river. The allies are still pressing for ward and there Is, every indication that the Oerman defeat may become t ri- 1 Developments reveal that the allied Ex-czar Nicholas Reported Executed London. July 20. Nicholas Romanoff, former czar of All the Russians, Is again reported dead, this time on the authority of the Bolshevist government at Mos cow, in a wireless message which says the ex-emperor was executed four days ago by order of the regional soviet council of the JJral. A. counter, revolu tionary plot to snatch the former czar front Soviet control and proclaim him emperor again is given as the reason , I !' A? frMtuMit lhav bMB annftiwntlv a ii- counter attack 1 s mors- Importanf than J hentie reports In Hhe past of the death' the Oerman offensive - effort which it 1 of Nicholas by suicide or. murder, that stopped. It measured solely by the num- I the news from Moscow, despite Its her ox prisoners ana regaraiess oi me far reaching .consequences in other re spects. ...v ; (The Oerman war ' office last night Claimed more than 20,000 prisoners.). up TO loaay as many nappy uerman prisoners had trudged to the rear as their worried "kamerads on the other side Of the lines had been able to take in five days', fighting. Battle Largely -:1a Opea v. w. - - r-rei Lliil Jt continues largely In the eopen. The F ".'rC tt. w .k. .Jir,i. I 80 others Injured whrfsn a Detroit-bound prove their maneuvering ability, are striking swiftly snd surely. The French source, is accepted here with caution, though the story seems circumstantial enough to give It the impression of authenticity. v , 15 Persons Killed In Trolley Crash Chelsea, Mich., July 20. (TJ. P.) p; iles of Captured Machine Guns Represent Loot of Battle; Sol dier Advance Merrily Into the Fight; Men Jam the Roads. limited papsenger car on the Detroit & Chicago Electric railway, .and a west generals are using legions with a mobtl-1 DOU"a Ires;'r,u" i Ity akin to that of their own light tanks, ",l ." " " whose feau in the past three days have fd re Detroit soldiers en route battle. They have been used almost like cavalry, scuttling over the ground and up hillsides like Fords, disregarding wire barriers, sweeping the Oerman defense off its feet and pursuing the demoralised Boches. ' The dash , and courage of the tank crewa have won this testimony from the highest quarters "The heroism of the crews Is above all praise." Forest Flays Its Part la Battle When .the whole story of the battle Is told, it probably will be revealed that VUlars-Cotterets forest played a part like Blrnam wood, famous in English history. ' V The vast French forest did not rise up and drive on the Oerman lines., nor did thf French' ana Americans carry branches to befuddle the enemy, but the effect was' the same when the allied hordes swept out from the forest's per fect, natural camouflage with a rush that carried them across the Oerman lines. 5 , I visited the forest yesterday evening and saw more Germans than the Amer icans and French combined, but , they were all ' prisoners. They , were march In g cheerfully away from the fight, chiefly boys about IS, apparently this year' class. , Ksemy 'Vtt ti Bivisioss According to information received at French headquarters, the enemy used about 6S divisions (about CS7.000 troops) In his latest 4 offensive. Of these, seven or eight: ' divisions ; (87.500 to . 100,000 . troops), were south of the Marne. These latter troops lacked supplies and were forced to retreat north of the river. Since Wednesday the fire of the French batteries" which .had the range of the enemy bridges across the river, made the Oerman passage . of the river, ex- , tremely.' difficult- and, hazardous. brought here. Ann Arbor; Others were taken to News Index SECTION OXE 28 PAGES SB Suffrage Reform Bill Is Accepted,. Report ' Amsterdam, July to. .A Budapest dis patch says the. Hungarian suffrage re form bill has been accepted by a large majority. , t : . ' Fighting Yankees in Picture A page .of actual' tattle photo fraphs thowinc -American sol-: diers in action in France wil be a feature of The Sunday Journal' Next Sunday; Oarmam ntrt Aero Marne A I Had Drive Stun giwmy Field of ttle Reviewed Pate of Parle Again Decided es Marne Br Prank H. Intend t. Hener Driven Northward (Continued) S. General Marsh Review I Oheerins Oregon' Shipbuilding Reooed Re viewed 4. Slmond' Review of Marne Battle (Continued) S. MeAdeo Vltlt Significant Oruler San Diego Sunk by Mine Revenue Bill In the Making O. A. O. Soldier. Build Barrack T. Oregon Forest free From Bltttar Rot S. editorial S). Brtef Information Town Topic 10. Now 6hU for Reed College Olvlo League Contlder . School Problem V. M. O. A. Broaden War Work Salvage Sale Swell Red Oreo Puns Belgian Leu to Sell Flower Red Ore Need Women Worker ' Dr. Wirt Dtceuttet Hun Brutalltv Dr. Martin Tell Need for Doctor -D resile Order Agalnet Flour Hoarding It Next Banker Plan Selling Oamoalgn Connie Meyer Lett Dlvmg Title ' Yankee Soldier Aristocrat ef Prance Fire Rata Pendleton Landmark Chautauqua Prat Secretary , Baker Women Handle City Mail Publlo Library I Aid to Shlpworken .Oar for Shlpworker Sought 5W. ef O. Training Camp ts gnded -Strahorn Would Open New gmplre Clark County Baca W. S. S. Cam paign Stat Tennl Start Monday Intercity Boilng Quarrel Start Recruit Director for War Servlo MerriU Well at Seattle Cym Tennl for Beginner Oornfoet Play SU Helena Today Publlo Oolf Oourse Invito Plarort Orlfflth Turn Pitcher Loco Will Play - Football In Best Sport in State r Transition Real Bstate and Building Want Ad Markets and Finance Marine 11. 11. 18. 14. 15. 1S. 17. -IB. 1. to. ti. By Fred S. Ferguson United Press Staff Oomepondent WITH the Americans Along the Soissons-Paris - Road Near Missy-Aux-Bois, July 19. (U. P.). (Night.) A vast plateau covered with waving wheat, marked by new dusty roads, helmets, guns, battered equipment, heaps of dead Germans and scattered American dead, -with rifle butts standing above the wheat where bayonets had been thrust In the ground to t mark where others of our heroes lieauch is the battleground over which : the Americans advanced southwest of Soissons. ' I crossed the battlefield this afternoon from a slight rise on the plateau near Mlssy-aux-Bois six miles southwest of Soissons) and witnessed the renewed American attack. " American shells, screaming - overhead, ribboned, the5 sky! Two . airplanes battled Just above. - I could see the rolling barrage movinJBtr toward another rise, upon which the Americans were advancing.. I y as They Advaae" , , A German shells broke In. MIssr-asa-Bola and along the road which was Jammed with wagons, horses and men. They were ooviousiy intended for the road. but always landed In the wheat field adjoining. The crash, flash and smoke was hardly noticed by the men and horses as they bent to the grim business oi maxing war. Meantime, ahead of us the Americans were advancing. I could see the second wave, or moppers-on I was unable to distinguish which starting. They walked along as easily - ms though - merely an swering a can to arms. .1 Through my glasses I could see they carried" full 'packs, ready to dig them selves into -their new positions. Screeching Shells Pats Overhead Just behind them was a big tank, but apparently it was not In action. The zero hour was 6:30. The barrage startea on the minute. The men simul taneously left the holes they had dug in the midst of the wheat, marching steaaiiy toward the Boches. The shells forming the barrage broke in a steady, straight line ahead, the smoke cloud slowly advancing. " A line of trees along the Soissons-Paris road Interfered with my view of the first wave, but I knew the boys were making new history. By 6 o'clock the Boche artillery was I becoming more active, while in a slight I depression Just behind me a long line of American field guns were pounding away with an ear-splitting roar, send ing over the barrage. Further In the rear our heavies were hurling shells that tore by with horri ble screeches, bound for the Oerman rear areas. Wares Carried oa With Advaaee Back at headquarters I. knew that re ports were -coming in every, moment, as the signal corps stretched the - wires close behind the advancing Infantry. As the barrage reached the crest of a rise,' the heavies took up the argument more . Intensely. - To reach the point from which I wlt- 06TEN NICUPOR' e pgr -s-y 31 r II 1 S fa. U. 1 S . K ADIXMUDE Ti li n BRUSSELS if) w. i m BELGIUM J- r r a n c V EACK ACROSS 1ARNE Fate of Paris Is Again Decided iii ManieVey a. as-se. 27. ts. (Concluded on Pace Two, Column One) TL S. Casualties in War Reach 12,495 SECTION TWO 20 PAGES 1. Portland I NMtaal Center i 2. In. the Realm of Music - In Vaudevlil . S. Photoplay New Part and Resort ,4-S. ' The Wert In Soolatr v . New of the Beach 7. Women's Clus Affair Fraternal Hew . S. Letter From Oreaon Soldier ... s. ' 1 gduoatlenal ': ;10. - Fashion Chat By Anne RlUenheute .-The 'Book Oar nor ' 11. Belgian Rollof Oommlsshxv By Brand - VVhftlaok " The Barensfather Cartoon It. An Army In the Maklno By William A. Ou Puy ; It, Amorloa't. First MHIIon , Aoros . Frank H. Slmond .: -. ' 1 4-1 . Automobiles, Oood Road. Trues. and - Tractor t tO. The War la Pictorial Review - '. SECTION, THREE 4 PAGES Washington. July 20. (U. P.) Ameri can casualties In the great war have now amounted to ,12,495 and General March today warned members of the senate military committee that for .the next 30 days the lists covering the present west front . fighting will affect many more American homes., . - Of the total to' date, 10,635 have been reported in the army and 1860 In the marine corps. ! During the last week 585 casualties were added. A reca pitulation of the army casualties showed 1758 killed in action. 856 died of wounds. 1878 died of diseases, 664 died of accidents and others causes, 6745 wounded and 668 missing. Including nrtooners. The marine corps list is made up of I 665 'deaths. Ills wounded in action, four In the hands of the enemy and 79 missing., v - ' " ' Voluntary System ; . Good, Says Hoover i Tondon. July 20-The voluntary sys tem of rationing In the United States is working extremely well.'" said Herbert C Hoover here today. "It ts so satisfac tory. In fact, that It is very Improbable i that rationing by cards will have to-be By Trak H. Slmoads '---v Author of -The World War." "Tney Shall Not P. Copyrlsht, lit 8., The ; New Tork Tripaao Association, The NW Tork Tribune. New York, July 20. The Germans have lost their second battle of the Marne. - Once more it would seem that the fate of Paris and of West ern civilisation has been -decided in , the valley of the river which gave its name to the most ' momentous struggle of the present world war. After four days of desperate but in the snaln fruitless offensive Ludendorff has temporarily at least lost the initiative, and It is Foch who is pursuing -the 'offensive and harvesting a toll of guns and pris ioners surpassing, the German achievement In the first days of the attack. First Marse Battle Becalled Under circumstances strangely re calling the first battle of the Marne, the decisive phase of this second battle of the Marne lias been fought 46 months and 10 days after the earlier struggle, and on ground with in cannon range of the fields that saw the fighting of that other time. Then It wlll.be recalled that while the Gerrrfan masses were push ing south of the Marne on a wide circle from Meaux to Vltry le Fran- cols, Joffre threw the army of Mau noury eastward out of Paris upon . the right flank of the Germans, com- polled Kluck to abandon his advance) south of the Marne and recall his masses to save his imperilled flank on the Ourcq river. On Thursday of last week, when the masses of Ludendorff had forced the passage of the Marne between Dormans and Chateau Thierry and were slowly eating their , way into the Rhelms salient ' as four years earlier' Bu1owb army was pressing - southward about La ' Fere-Champenolse in the first days of September, 1914, r Foch , suddenly threw a Franco-American fbrca up on the right flank of all the Ger- -, man forces actively engaged In the battle between the . Soissons and Rheims, and promptly repeated the earlier achievement of Maunoury at the Oureci riverv ' ; Civil War Offers Parallel A good Amertcart parallel for the Foch stroke is to be found In the manner In which Lee threw Jack son upon Hooker's right flank after the commander of the army of the Potomac had successfully passed the Rapidan and was at Chancel- lorsvllle preparinr for an attack ; upon the divided Confederate army. Both In the case of Maunoury and of Jackson, the-sudden thrust failed to destroy the army -attacked, but In both cases it compelled retire--ment of an army which seemed on the point of making material If. not decisive gains, and in the case of the Marne compelled a general re-, tlrement of all the German armies T between -Verdun i and Paris thus putting the French capital out of jeopardy for nearly out years.- Betumlng - now to the history of the development of rthis. the fifth 1 great German effort and the fourth! in the series directed ; at Parts. It Is necessary-to trace . briefly - the -progress of events." The German at- -tack opened on Monday, July 15, on a'wide front along the Marne be- ' tween Chateau-Thierry and west-- ward ;to the fringe of 'the Forest i d'Argorme at; Masslges. - Th front - y Immediately engaged - in ' an extent ? - of some 65 miles, an even greater ' front than that on which the Ger mans made their first and most Successful attack In Plcardy on March 21 of the present -year. Germaai Aimed for Shelsis ' In Its Initial stages the' German, attack - seemed to have the larger purpose oti breaking down all the French front between the Argonne and the Marne, forcing the French behind the Marne and the -Oorcq rivers and abolishing the Kheims salient . Unmistakably la its larger aspects German strategy was seeking to re produce a full measure of the condi tions which existed at the moment when the first battle of the Marne began. The Germans sought to es tablish their flank all the way from the Masslges westward to the Marne, at Chateau-Thierry, behind natural obstacles and so protect it that It would be safe from any French men ace when at last Ludendorff was ready to make his final thrust upon Paris. Larger Psrsotet Tolled But the larger purposes Of the Ger man strategy were foiled in the very first days of the battle. Between . Bfhelms and the Argonne the French armies, under the command of Gen eral Gournaud, a brilliant colonial officer, who had achieved distinction at Galllpoll, successfully stopped a tremendous German attack on their battle position. For the first time since, the Von Hutier tactics had been employed in the western front, they failed Immediately and decisive ly. . The French line was not pierced ; It was not bent. Gounaud's troops retired voluntarily, a certain distance, to ' their prepared positions, and against those positions the German storm broke and failed. At the end of the second day the German attack between Rhelms and the Argonne was at a standstill. It had achieved no greater gains than the occupation- of the Meronvlllier heights, relinquished by the French In the first hours of the battle, and a few positions on ths eastern side of the Rhelms salient. Important only if . the. progress on the west side should menace, the salient Itself. . Asaerleasvl BeettabUth Lisas . Westward, of Rhelms and between that city and Chateau-Thierry, on the Marne, the) Oermans did better. Attacking the American forces hold ing the south bank of the Marne be tween a point near Chateau-Thierry and Janlgonnet the Germans tempe ' . rarily forced the passage of - the : river and drove our troops back ward, but by a brilliant counter of-' 4 jsi ' , Franco-Americans Are Battering Enemy, From Two Sides, Rolling Up German Armies Between Aisne and Marne; Foe Is Beaten in Repeated Counter Attacks . Chateau-Thierry-Soissons Highway Has Been Pierced; Advances Continue With' Thousands of Prisoners Reported; Big Guns Command Wide Area on Front . assBsassaaa 4 PARIS, July 21. (U. P.) 12:05 A. M. Tho German retreat across the Marne has been i ..... ct: ..HM.nMJ al uuuiriicicU) uic wax unite atuiuiuiwcu. e nil . . V S morning. 1 ne enure soutn DariK nas Deen ciearea of the enemy. Further advances have been made between the Aisne and the Marne. More than 20.000 prisoners have been taken on the whole front and over 400 guns have been captured. Idaho-Montana Fires Rage Uncontrolled Missoula, Mont. July 29. . N. & Electrical storms . and continued . hot weather have brought, the forest fire sttoatlBH " trt etmrMonlanav - r and northern' Idaho to -a. dimast with hun dreds fires, targe and amal raging ajmost ' uncontrolled" Berkms fire are burning; 1- the . Clearwater. ' Bel way, Coeur d Alone. Kooteaai, Kanlksu and Pen . d'Oreille forests, covering many thousand . acrea. Shortage of fir flshtera. which de veloped Thursday and Friday and men aced the success of efforts to subdue the flames, was relieved somewhat to day by the Importation of several hun dred men from Butte and Great Fella Seventeen new fires were reported this jnornlng In the Kaaiksu forest from lightning, with It new biases from the same source In the Kootenai forest. In the Pen d'Oreille - forest lightning started eight new fires. The thunder storms, practically devoid of rain, are the result of hot weather, and are now the forest-officials' worst foe. Ten Americans Take Ambulance From Hun Paris, July 20. Ten Americans, led by Richard C 8chreeve of Rochester, N. Y today rescued two ambulances and 40 American wounded which had been captured by the Germans. Making a dash at the truck in which the Germans were guarding the wounded prisoners, the Americans beat off the Boches and; brought their comrades and the recaptured ambulances back to the allied lines. (Cooelodod ea Pass Few. Cotaata Oae) 87tfr Anniversary of -Belgium Observed - Washington. July 2Q U. P. Con fidence in a, re-enfranchlsed Belgium, free from German oppression, was ex pressed by President Wilson today In a message of sympathy to King Albert on the eighty-seventh anniversary of the war-strickea little country. ... ' - Although Belgium ; ts forbidden by German conquerors to celebrate its inde pendence day. other allies are observing It with re-assurances of sympathy and continued support in . the fight for free - ALL DEAD OR PRISONERS By Lowell Mellett WITH THE FRENCH ARMIES, July 20. (U. P.) All the Germans who are now south of the Marne are either prisoners or dead. r.wiTH'lTHE''A AISNE MARNE FRONT, July 20. "The Ger mansareburnin'owns behind their lines in the. s Chateau-Thierry region. ' , By Frank T. Taylor - - (United Fress Staff Correspondent) " ; With the Americans in the Champagne, July 20. (U. P.) The long-expected retirement of the Germans from the Soissons-" Kherms pocket may be under way. American airmen, harassine the Boches back of the front lines. report congested movements of men, artillery and supplies over the German roads, easterly from positions north of Chateau-Thierry and backward along the rest ot the front. The withdrawal of the Germans south of the Marne is beinj? hampered by American and French artillery barrages, which are trained in successive walls of fire from the enemy positions to the river and beyond. The river front is becoming a holocaust for the Boche troops. Many German detachments have hurled themselves at the allied bayonets rather than face the terrible barrages in their rear, bmall croups ot the Oermans have broken throucrh into the . woods, but these are being rapidly hunted down and exterminated, : ihe net result of the German push southward had been only enormous losses along the entire front. Whole German divisions have been broken up. ' ! The allies are still attacking everywhere as this is cabled.' from Soissons to northwest of Chateau-Thierry, between Chateau- r-re " w- . . - . i merry ana Kheims, and east ot Kheims. Deserters Betrayed Plans, Says'Zeitung Amsterdam. July JO. (U. P.) "Ger man deserters betrayed our - military plans and the alms of our recent offen sives were not attained." a Berlin dis patch to the Cologne Volks-Zeltung de clares. - . The dispatch, adds that the offensive was aimed at Parts. New Wage Scale to Be Rendered July 25 Seattle. July SO. The decision of Etf rector General KcAdoo of the railroad administration on proposed new wage scales for the mechanical crafts will be rendered July 25, Mr. McAdoo an nounced here today. He said that the decision had been delayed because of his absence from Washington. Czernin Still Has Peace Suggestions ; Amsterdam, July 10. (U. P.) Count CsernUt, addressing the upper bouse of the Austrian reJchsrat, suggested that the foreign ministers of Austria-Hungary and Germany, and Premier XJoyd George forward their peace conditions to some neutral.' bLeary Jury Fails - T6;Agr ee; Dismissed New Tork, July JO kU. P.V The Jury In tho trial of John J. Oeary, charged with conspiring to assist his brother. Jeremiah, to : escape ... while - awaiting trial on a conspiracy charge, wag dis charged today, whae BIG VICTORY WITHIN GRASP By John De Gandt, (United Press Staff Correspondent.) - Paris, July 20.(U. P.) (6 P. M.) One of the greatest battle of all time is being fought along practically the whole Soissons-. Rheims salient, with prospects for allied success growing hourly. " t TS- M ..1 T- 1 . . wnne ine rrencn ano Americans-are Daunng gnmiy between Soissons and Chateau-Thierry, pressing forward foot by foot, de spite the increasing masses of the enemy, Franco-American forces are striking south of the Marne from Fossoy to Queilly. and are compelling the oermans to retreat northward across the river. At " the same time French and Italian troops are thrusting between the Marne and Rheims and already have re-taken two villages. iast oi Kneims ainea troops nave practically restored their ong inal lines. " .' Slaughter of Enemy Is Frightful .. The situation south of the Marne is rapidly assuming the pro portion of a German disaster, according to the latest reports. The retreat across the river can 'be accomplished pnly under the most disastrous conditions, as was proven by the enemy retirement fol- ,. lowing the Americans' success on a much smaller front earlier in V the week. At that time thousands of Boches were. caught in a trap, and captured, pr slain,"-while great' numbers were drowned. There is .every indication that this coup may be repeated on a . larger .scale." " - - . , The battle between the Aisne and the Marne is one of gigantic slaughter, .The terrible, losses suffered by the enemy are empha- ' sized. by the reckkssness with which the high command is tossing in Us .reserves-rthe reserves that were to take Paris and cod -the war, . BaUlcfront dispatches state that more than 100,000 rein forcements have thus .far. been hurled into the line as fodder for , allied cannon. , ; . , . ; ' Big Victory Within Grasp And in the face of all these thousands and tens of thousands, the -French. and Americans are driving on. They are reported climbing to the outskirts of the suburbs, of Soissons, less than two kilometers ;( mile and a quarter) from the city itself. Neuilly St. Front has fallen and the important railway and highway center, of OuIchy-le-Chateau is endangered, with its almost absolute con trol of the network of communication lines that feed the Chateau- lntroduced- . ' - , dom. an agreement. ( Concluded oa rase Two, Colusa Oae) " -