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vmi XVII. NO. is i PORTLAND. OREGON. FRIDA Y EVENING, AUGUST 9, 1918. EIGHTEEN PAGES PRICE TWO CENTS Oft TWAINS ANO RlWt STAND FIVC KNT VANCE 12 MILES JN HKyy 5 BRITISH START MEW DRIVE M ' FLANDERS; : I ;: i i , . - MILE IPUtJ WITH HUH HUNS DRIVEN INTO LAND 1EY LAID Foreign Minister Tcherin Says State of Defense, Not War, Exists, In Explanation of State ment Made, by Lenine. w 1 1 min txpresses nope Aitiea nepreseni- atives Will Stay at Posts; WiH Mot Oppose Departure of Allied Military Officers. WASHINGTON, Aug. 9. (I. N. S.) Belated dispatches from American Consul Poole at Mos cow today partly cleared up the reports that the Bolsheviki had declared war on Great Britain. Poole reported that on July 3 premier Lenine announced at a soviet, that a state of war ex-" 1 lsted between the Russian repub lic and the allied' governments. ; The consular representatives In Mos cow of those powers Immediately com municated with M. Tcherin at the min litry of foreign affair's and demanded an explanation of Lenlne's statements. TcherJfi told them that "a state of de fense existed, not a state of war," and expressed the hope that the representa tives would remain at their posts, ex actly As did the representatives of Ger many under similar circumstances. '"The consular officers then demanded that a public .statement of exact condi tions be made, in order that the publio should not be deceived. This was taken under consideration by Tcherin. ' When asked whether British and French military officers who were In Russia 'would be allowed to leave the country, Tcherin said that to obstacle would be placed in their way. i 'At the same time a report from .Archangel stated that when the allied forces appeared there the Bolsheviki demanded an explanation. The allies, however, immediately cap'f Battle Tide Is Turned Victory Held Nearer l tContinuwl en Page Two. Column Four) 68 SHIPS ARE BEING ; OUTFITTED HERE 28 Vessels Have Been Completed j and Sent on Their Journey From This Port. 8lxtv-larht eh Inn wmuIm nA .tk1 launched. In the yards of Portland, 65 of them sines January 1. are lying at out fitting docks today. Nor is this all of Portland's contribution to the govern ment's ship program for the war. for 28 ; vessels already have been completed and sent out , for carrying men. muni Uons and supplies to Europe. , The launchlngs this year for the Amer ican and French governments, together with a few on private account, total 93 so far in 191S. The total tonnage of ships put in the water this year is 392.800. Of the 93 ships, 18 were steel, 14 of 8800 tons and four of 3800 tons, a total ton nage in steel Ships of 128,400. " Wooden ships numbered 75, with a total tonnage of 892,800. Shipyards are Just getting to their full capacity now. With the three new ways at the Columbia River Shipbuilding cor poration, the five new ways at the steel yards of the G. M. Standlfer Construc tion corporation, and the Increased pro duction planned in the wooden shipyards the year's tonnage will more than double that so far launched and is expected to approximate a million tons. Artliur Vincelet Severely Wounded . Arthur 8. Vincelet, whose address s given as 1808 Kndlcott street, .Portland was severely wounded, according to the official announcement of the wa department., Mr. vincelet s name is not In the city directory, and the army recruiting station had no record or bis having enlisted since Novem ber of last year. ' IP 1 U J v 4 : K' J IVf' i V rf; S j f T'V' David ' Lloyd George London; Aug. 9. (i. n. S.) "We propose to fight it through to the end," de clared Premier Lloyd George iii a speech at Neath today at a Welsh Celebration. Ringing cheers greeted the premier. : "The word is full steam ahead," he continued, "until the gods decree that the sun shine again in a land of real peace and there is no apprehen sion of sinister plotting by forces always ready to start the slaughter again. . ! "We have a right to feel con fident, for there is great news. "The Franco - British attack is one ray of light in' the tunnel through which the allies are traveling," continued the pre mier. "It means we have traveled so many miles nearer the end. We mayJiave dark days ahead nevertheless let us keep up our '. spirits. j "It is the spirit of the people that counts for victory. And in that victory there will be no tearing up nor greed; yea, no vengeance. ! "Keep steady and all will be well." I "The tide of, the battle has turned," the premier declared in a speech on his way to Neath. "The enemy has done' his worst," he continued. "He could not do more than he has done. If we hold together we will win the greatest triumph for liberty the world has ever seen." FLOWER OF 1 REPULSED emis Picked Shock Troops Try Vainly Four Times to Drive Away Americans Holding the Bridge Over Vesle River at Fismes. ENLiSTMEMNTS ORDERED STOPPED Men Who Applied Up to 9 A. M. This Morning to Be Accepted; Marine Still Taking Men. Albany, N. T.. Aug. 9. (I. N. S.) With a great demand for army officers facing the war department, a standard course of military training has been prescribed to prepare and. train 65,000 officers in all the colleges of the coun try, it became known, here this after noon. - Forty college presidents from New York and New Jersey conferred here today with Dr. Charles Alexander Richmond, president of Union college, Schenectady, who has been named re- iKlonai director lor New York and New pjersey. The war department plan has - di vided the . country Into 12 educational districts. A regional director for each district has been appointed. PRISONER FLEES WHEW LEFT ALONE Lyle D. Brown, Facing Possible I Forgery and White Slave . Charges, Escapes. Official orders covering the cancel lation of voluntary enlistments pending negotiations over the new draft were received by Portland recruiting of ficers t th'ls morning. - Colonel, George S. .Young, in charge of the army -recruiting station In the Worcester building, received! the fol- Concluded on Page Three. Column Two) Spain's Neutrality . at Stake, View of Papers of Nation Paris, Aug. 9. (By Aeence Radio to the I. N. S.) Rlgorons measures .are necessary to establish absolutely - the neutrality of Spain, according to advices from Madrid today, quoting the Spanish newspapers. One paper was credited with savin? that the "allies mistrust Spain and that a stand is imperative.' - i . The Dlarlo and Universal ' calls it a "srrave and BOlemn hour." The' deliberations of, the mtnlstry -At Madrid on the sinking of Spanish, ships by German submarines .have coma to an .no. i Lyle D. BRirn. arrested Thursday night by city detectives after he had attempted to .cash a $200 check at a department store," escaped from an ante room in the United States attorney's office, in the postoffice building this afternoon. Brown was left alone for a moment when Assistant United States Attorney Goldstein called Inspector Pat Moloney, who had brought Brown to the office from the city jail, into a private office. Brown look advantage of the officer's abseiyefe and fled to the street where he disappeared in the crowds at Morrison and Fifth streets. j At the city Jail, huddled disconsolate ly in the women's protective division Quarters, Is a pretty girl of Louisville. Ky., who, until today, thought she was Brown's wife. She heard then, however. that the marriage ceremony performed at jerrersonvuie. ind., was fictitious. She is being held as a witness to Dos Bible charges of forgery and violation of the federal white slave law. i Officers say the girl in the case is an orphan and was in an .asylum during ner ennanooo. innocent of any wrong, She is said to have met Brown in Louis ville, when he was On parole from the reformatory. He is said to have told her he had been an employe rather in an an inmate of the state institution ; snorts are being made by the women's protective bureau to find proper employment, for her here. t, . r , : Oil Vat Explodes j In Shell Factory j Chicago, Aug. 9. L N. S.) A blast which threatened tons of munition. threw Into a panic the 300 odd employes oi winsiow xiros. nere today when ah oil vat, used for the dipping of .shells. exploded. Although driven into the street by fear, none of the workers, of whom 200 are girls, was hurt. - Prompt action Dy me tire department prevented the blast from causing serious damage. Picardy Drive Expected to Aid Americans on Soissons Front News of Amiens Attack Received With Great Enthusiasm by the Yankee Troops. By Henry G. Wales ; TL riTMTHf -AJIErU CAN AwCx -" r W ON " THE MAhNE-VESLE FRONT. Aug. 8. (Nfght.)-aN. S.)PicLei German shock ops unsuccessfully attempted four times today to drive back the Amfican troops holding the bridgehead established on the north bank of the Vesle river at Fismes. General von Boehm launched his heaviest attack soon before daybreak with 400 picked men from the grenadier and Prussian' Guard forces. He ordered them to regain the river bank at all costs. 'American machine guns, however, poured so deadly a fire from the northern outskirts of Fismes and the northern side of the Soissons-Rhelm high road in the region of Bazoches that the German attack was broken down. The enemy continues to- hold Ba zoches technically, as he has drenched the town with gas in his determination to keep the allies out, but he is unable to live there himself, merely maintain ing a cordon of machine gunners at l)the edge of Fismes. uespue enemy gases, jvrupp Daiienes and the shelling of back areas by long range enemy guns, allied engineers have succeeded in establishing a bridge across the Vesle. Enemy, aircraft and artil lery failed to stop them. Our artillery also successfully grap pled with the barbed wire entangle ments which the Boches placed along the river bed to prevent its fording during the Franco-British offensive in the Montdidier salient. Critics of Foch Silenced By Earl C. Beeves London, Aug. 9. (I. N. S.) The launching of Marshal Foch's second surprise offensive Thursday apparently reveals that American troops particl- ( Continued on Ptge Four, Column Two) Auto Factories Are Told of Need Of - War Material - - ,. Washington, Aug. 9. Pleasure auto mobile manufacturers were advised to convert their energies to war wejrk as quickly as possible, in a letter ' made public today by ihe war industries board No assurances for continuance of the industry after January 1, 1919. can be given, the letter Btated. No steel will be allocated the manu facturers who have not compiled with the board's request for a detailed in ventory of steel stocks on hand, the board added. . Kuehlmann Sees ', Collapse of Junkers Berne, Aug. ! 9. (U. P.) Dr. Ttjchard von Kuehlmann, former German foreign minister, has conferred with Mathias Ersberger, centrist leader. s.nd Philip Scheidemann, leader of the majority So cialists, with a view to forming a reieh stag majority under his leadership, ac cording to a Berlin dispatch today. It is reported Von Kuehlmann has predicted collapse of the Pan-German majority and the fall of Chancellor von Hertling with in a year. Von Kuehlmann is said to ex pect to become chancellor, - WASTI 1 BY GERI HEM 6LG 1 I TO I SUPPLIES i LOST ARE (HS FORCE By Fred S. Fergason With the American Armies in France. Aug. 8. (Night.) The Franco-British attack in Picardy Is likely to have a big influence on the situation along the Aisne-Vesle line where there has been no great change in the past 24 hours. The Americans improved thelf po sitions slightly by heavy attacks, but for the most part were busy repulsing German counter attacks. One of these reached our lines, but the infantry threw them back in hand to hand struggles. News of the Amiens attack is being received with great enthusiasm by Americans. One doughboy expressed the- sentiments of his companions as lOllOWSj, , V . 'ii' Now he is beslrmlng to kick. The Brit ish ought to put a twist on his nose and shut off his wind. Then we'll start going here again." I spent an hour tonight with some boys from Michigan and Wisconsin who took part in' the fight and drove the Boches across the Vesle. They ran into many machine guns being fired by men with the red cross on their1 arms, they said. One lieutenant came in with the knees clean out of his pants, where machine gun bullets had nipped him. There was scarcely a man but had a bullet hole through his clothes somewhere. Many had lost puttees and coats and fousrht virtually bare armed and bare legged. Father Dunnigan of Lapeer, Mich., said he buried one boy he founds with three dead Boches about him. The boy's rifle was covered with blood. Appar ently he had fought a bayonet battle against many Germans and had ac counted for three of them before he had fallen himself. Huns Must Change Before Allies Will Ever Bridge Abyss . -- mm London, Aug. 9. (I. N. S.) "The abyss separating the allies and the central powers will be Immeasurable until the true policy of Germany Is changed." Foreign Secretary Balfour declared today. "There Is small hope that Germany willingly will become a member of a peaceful society of na tions," Balfour continued. "To return the, African colonies to Germany would mean submarine bases In all the trad routes of the world and creation of a black army tor the purpose of ag gression. "This would be a calamity to man kind, unless Germany changes heart or an allied victory convinces everybody in Germany that their policy is a failure." Initial Progress Made by British in Flanders Battle) Is to Depth of Two Miles on Eight Mile Front; Capture of Six Villages Reported; Resistance of Germans to North of Somme Vig orous; Morlancourt Is Captured; British Make Big Gains LONDON, Aug. 9, 5: 15 P. M. (I. N. S.) General retreat by the Ger mans is indicated by the wholesale destruction of munition dumps and stores, said a Reuter dispatch from the front late this afternoon. The Franco-British casualties are, reported to be only tKtefifths' of I the numDer or prisoners counted. 22 Hun Planes Are Sent Down in Raid London, Aug. 9. Explosives factories at Bom bach were attacked by British bombing squadrons, the British air min istry communique. Issued today, stated. Fifteen hostile airplanes were destroyed and seven driven down out of control Two British machines failed to. return. S ROLL OF HONOR ; tai Ka jsa a to in J Wiihincton. Aur 9. (I. N. 8.) F1 .rax and one mrine corps casualty lists wer iaauI today. The amy Usta contained os namea, u Tided as followa: Killed in action. SO: died from woonda, from diseaae. 2 ; from accident, 1 ; wounded -verelr, 20; wounded sHsbtly, 2: wounded, decree undetermined, 41; mining in action, 808. The nianna liat cosumed oz namea. amaed as follows; 'Tour killed' in action, fiva died from wounds rsceiTed in action. IS wounded severely in ac tion and SO wounded,' degree undetermined. The army lists contain the namea of the fol lowing officers: KILLED IN ACTION CAPTAIN ROBERT M. GRAHAM, Kin tola, Minn. - - , . - :' Lieutenant rrOESB K. BATNOR. Battle Creek. Mich. JOHN B. WHITE. HutchinlAi. Kan. GUT 3. W1N8TEAD. Boiboro. N. C. GERALD K. 8TOTT, Oakland. Maine. . MISSING. IN ACTION CAPTAIN DANA C. 8CHMAHU SL Paul, Minn. , . .t '.- - Lieutenants , . CtrTPE C. VAUGHN, Liberty Hill, Texaa. GEORGE H. CROWNS. Nekoose. Wia.- ROBERT P. RATMOND, Boston. - By William Philip Simms TTTJ TUE: DD1T1CTJ ADHUCC 1M CD A MPC A n U . S r T5 t Wiiii inc uxvi i ion Aijyiico n i ivaimul;, nu. u.ju i;. ivi. (U. P.) British cavalry detachments are reported approaching "Vtmilfiao A O m1ap nrVi arA 41ia rtf fanc!ifa eni4fll Detrnnavo viiaunico, x jl, iimo iiuiu wiiic inc uiibiioiv otai iwu. a iiouti&is taken inthe drive to date exceed 20.000, according: to the estimates. The cavalry today took a number of additional villages from the Ger mans. ' t i ; - The losses to the armies of Von der Marwitz and Von Hutier in muni tions and other supplies alone constitute a heavy blow to the Germans. Ten different enemy divisions were identified in Thursday's fighting. (A German division usually numbers 12,000 men.) j: ! Other divisions have been thrown into the Rattle since Thursday night. The whole area included in the great bend of the Somme is a nasty tangle of German transports and artillery troops, all struggling along the same roads. These masses of. men and material are being attacked by 1 w a m rmm. ea aaHfc 1 aaA - ya w l a a! 4l ! W aT" 4 V A l A -m-m Wf aC 1 e A V A aa. iuwujih aiipiaiico, which iiiaiittaiti a wuiidiatii iitawuiiic 5UH 111k.) (tcyiil panied by bombs, day and night. In the region of Morlancourt, the British were unable to maintain their positions. The Chihilly spur, around the foot of which flows the Somme, is the scene of very heavy fighting. The Wurtemburgers there were ordered to hold despite any losses. 4 Farther south, French and British cavalry seems to be everywhere at once, cutting retreating columns to pieces and rounding up prisoners.' Armored cars are dashing up and down the roads, adding to the enemy's dismay, while tanks and "whippets" maneuvering across the fields and cooperating with the cavalry far in advance of i the infantry, are continuing their deadly trundle. i Many bridges have been destroyed, including those at Peronne and Brie. . I - j. : French cavalry, tanks and infantry are fighting brilliantly on the Brit ish right. j London, Aug. 9. :(U. P.) British troops, while sweeping forward on their new offensive front in Picardy, suddenly advanced in Flanders today. Initial progress of two miles on an eight-mile front along the south western portion of the Flanders salient was reported by the British; war . rr - 1 ; 11 J.1. XI A 1. '. Ml 5 x, 1 oince, togeiner wun xne capiure oi mx vmagcb. ! Locon, Le Cornet, Malo, Quentin, Ue Petit Pacaut and L"e Sart tiave been occupied. " : j r:-y " North .of the Somme, the statement said, the enemy is resisting vigor ously, and heavy fighting is underway between Chipilly and Morlancourt. Haig's statement indicated the enemy had retired from his positions on the whole Lys valley front,, and that the British had advanced northwest ward of Merville to a depth of 2000 yards. ; (Concluded ea Page V ourtaea Coluna lUee) London, AugJ 9,-2 g "iY -British patrols have passed Foucaucourt