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ITS ALL TfffE" (3SL ' j PORTLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 20, 1918. EIGHTEEN PAGES- PRICE TWO CENTS VOL. XVII. NO. 162 nrwa TAMO riVI CINTt OWR DIVERS: TUTTT- UJ Vv 1EBS CROSSING FRONTIER Yankees Close on Heels of Hun Forces as Advance Toward the Rhine Is Continued. Flags, Cheers and Kisses Greet! Troops of Allies as They Re cover Ground Held by Germans Py Webb Miller W rITH THE AMERICANS AD VANCING TOWARD THE RHINE. Nov. 20. (U. P.) The sec ond phase of the American ad vance began today, v?hen the march was taken up across the frontiers of German terrain and the Duchy of Luxemburg. . The columns moved In the direction of ThlonvlIIe ("Dledenhofen") and the city of Luxemburg. (ThlonvlIIe Is 16 miles directly 'north of Metz and about nine miles from tha Franco-German frontier. Luxemburg la H miles north of Thion Ule and 13 miles from tho French fron tier.) The day objectives represent .in nd Tance of about 10 miles. The Amirl;ans were cloae on the heels of the Germans, at some points the latter's rear guards being sighted. The, Americans are rapidly eonaoltdat in the reoccupied regions. Locomotives drawing long trains are following up the Infantry and ar within a few miles of the front linen. , . fc Enormous quantities of materials are still feeing taken over. Frequently sup plies and ammunltlop are abandoned without any custodians to tiat they are properly delivered. Powerful defense systems with new wire entanglements are encouutered every few miles, showing that the cremy planned to make a desperate resist ance. In every town Is posted proclamations notifying the soldiers that the new gov ernment is in authority. "Pro-Germans Passively Look On Mets. Nov. 19. (U. P.) (Night) German domination In Lorraine ended today and this historic city slept to night under the protection of France. Mets was formally taken over by the French today when Marshal Petaln re viewed the tenth army before the statue of Marshal Ney. French civilians and a majority of the Lorralners were wtldly enthusiastic during the ceremonies this afternon (Concluded on Pag 8nn. Column T wot RED CROSS GIRLS CROSS THE RHINE Two Americans Drive Motor Truck Laden With Supplies for Allied Prisoners. Berne, via Paris, Nov. 20. (I. N. S.) Letltia Curtis of San Francisco and Cheta Geary of Denver, attached to the Swiss commission of the Red Cross, were the first American women to en ter Germany since the beginning of the war. They crossed the Rhine Into Baden at Loerrach on Sunday, some days before the armies of occupation were due. The girls drove a motor truck filled with supplies for the feeding of the hundreds or Italian, Russian and French and British and the few American prisoners. Prussian officers acted courteously to wards the Americans, holding up retreat ing artillery convoys on congested roads and bridges to permit the motor truck to pass. Retiring German soldiers, with red flags thrust Into the -barrels of their rifles, cheered the girls who had placed an American flag on their motor truck. The soldiers cheered vociferously when they learned that the kaiser had fled and hurrahed for "the three republics America. France and Germany." When the motor truck stopped, the German soldiers gathered around It of fering belt buckles, shrapnel helmets and bayonets as souvenirs. . Released prisoners encountered by the two American women were greatly in need of food and lgthing. Small bunches' qf them were overtaken pa tiently plodding in the direction of France. Canadian Forces To Be Demobilized Montreal. Que., Nov. 20. (U. P.) Def inite orders for the demobilisation of all Canadian expeditionary forces In this military district have been received bV Major General E. W. Wilson, "from Aajuiani uenerai Aishton. There are 60,000 soldiers In the district. ALL OFFICERS, MEN IN NAVY IN RESERVE WASHINGTON, ot. !. (I. IT. 8.) All officers and enlUted men of the United States nary who are discharged or relieved from doty because of the end of the war will be placed In a reserve class subject to recall to active service In any emergency, Secretary Dan" lels announced this afternoon, fol lowing his conference with the house naval affairs committee. EQUI CASE WILL REACH JURY TODAY Counse f Defense Weeps Fre- quently as He Makes Argu ment for Client. Pausing in the swing Of his argu ment time after time to wipe the tears from his eyes. George Vanderveer, leading counsel for Dr. Marie Equl, closed his final appeal and left the fate of his client In the hands of the Jury Just prior to the noon adjourn ment today. The case will pass Into the keeping of the 12 men who have heard it some time this afternoon, fol lowing the closing argument of United States Attorney Haney, and Judge Bean's charge as to the law of the case. Mr. Vanderveer followed his associated counsel, J. E. Fenton, In the presenta tion of the defendant's plea for acquit tal. In his summary of the testimony both of government and defense he lost no opportunity that could be turned to the advantage of his client. He picked the witnesses of the government to pieces, personally and as to their tes timony, and, asked why it was that no police officer,, no official of the depart raent of Justice or no representative cit lzen had .appeared to testify- against the defendant.-..?-'?-'-'.--'"; -' . --.--. It is a vicious, villainous, libelous slander, not upon the defendant but upon the citizens of Portland when the gov ernment's witnesses say that; . a crowd of people listened to such things as Dr. Equl is charged with saying and gave her applause," he said. And then turn- (Ixmcradxv on Fas StTiDtMn. Cohans Six) Telegraph Lines Will Be Operated As Single Systems Washington, Nov. 20. All telegraph systems now under government control shall be operated as one, effective De cember 1. Postmaster General Burleson ruled today. This action was taken, Burleson ex plained, "in order that the telegraph facilities may be used to the fullest ex tent and the transmission of messages expedited." All offices will then "accept for trans mission all classes of messages now ac cepted by any one of them at the pre scribed rates." Annual vacations with pay for em ployes of the companies are provided in another order issued by Burleson to day. Employes who have been In the service continuously for one year will receive a week's vacation and those employed for two years will receive two weeks. Belgium's King and Queen in Antwerp And Populace Cheers Antwerp. Nov. 19. (U. P.) (Delayed) King Albert and Queen Elizabeth en tered Antwerp this morning amid a clamor of cathedral bells and shouts of the people. The streets were thronged and people packed the windows and sat on the roofs, despite the rain. The 'city was gaily decorated with" Belgian and allied flags. Antwerp Is comparatively undamaged. The Inhabitants have been well fed and the shops are filled with a great variety of food and sweetmeats. Spanish Influenza . Not Yet Conquered -v-, C...I.I, nnin,a n D.,t. " - - , " PRIVATE MARTIN MATSON, emergencjr ad land number 106 this morning, showing drew- Pet Matson. Tror. Idaho, a tendency for the epidemic to remain SERGEANT CHARLES HUOKABA. eme- Bomewhat stationary, while throughout ?: Wre. John V. Hnckaba, 2812 South the state It is decidedly on the wane. . private WILLIAM M. HOLLIDAY, emerg Southeastern Oregon is the only local- enrj addrem. Mrs. Telrtha Bolliday. Ho. Idaho. Ity where the lnfluenaa is still rampant PRIVATE P Tf MEDE8KE, men- and lack of reports to the state board of healtfi would indicate there are ' no appreciable increases. Planes Have Crossed Ocean, Aviators Say Paris, Nov. 20. (I. N. S.) British aviators in Paris assert that the At lantlc has already been crossed by air planes, although the Information was kept a secret during the war. They ..de clare that machines of the Handley Page .type flew from New Foundland to Ireland. There Is no official conflr- 1 matlon of these statements. . FAR1ERS ASKING FOR JUST RATE Inland Empire Wheat Growers Demand Recognition of Colum bia Route as Freight Basis. Differential FavorinS the R'ver Route Will Be Asked of Com merce Board; Journal to Help. 1 lumbia basin are moving into line to demand recognition of the Columbia water grade route. Inland Empire grain growers and shippers have determined to seek correction of the unjust Northwest rate structure under which they are charged as much to ship their wheat down the river route to ports of the Co lumbia as over the steep and difficult mountain route to Pu get Sound. Several conferences of the grain growers and shippers have been held recently. Plans are rapidly formu latlng to call upon the Interstate Com merce commission for a rate differen tial favoring the Columbia river route, Ex-Governor, West WIU Assist Mindful of the unswerving effort hy Tho Journal sine It waa s founded1, for recognition of the Columbia water grade as a measure vitally essential to the development of the Columbia basin, the shippers have asked this news paper to ally itself with them, and to aid ' the, common . cause tmtil victory snail '- have been won. The Journal has gladly responded to this appeal. The publisher has asked former Governor Oswald West to fur nish the grain growers and shippers with such legal assistance as they will be in need of, and Mr. West has ar ranged to do so Moreover, The Journal will give to the campaign for recognition of the Colum bia water grade and the allied move ments for the developments of the Co lumbia basin such Intensified energy and devotion as will, it is hoped, bring nearer the day of triumph for the prin ctples involved and for the present and future generations whose welfare is at stake. Rate Based on Cost Is Asked The appeal, which t ts proposed to file with the Interstate Commerce com mission, will ask, in brief, for a lower rail rate between Inland Empire points and ports of ,the Columbia than between the Inland Empire and Puget sound The differential will be sought on the ground that the cost of operating trains over the water grade route is so much less than over the mountain routes that wrong and harm are done by charging identical rates for both routes. Inland empire grain growers are keen Iy aware that the present conditions add to the cost of every bushel of wheat grown, and to the extent that the cost of operation Is made more costly the value of their property is depressed and development retarded. Shippers are called upon to pay on every ton of freight the toll Imposed by the high costs of mountain transportation no mat ter whether they ship by the mountal or the river route. Artltrary Advantage Given By arbitrary and artificial equalization of rates ports of Puget Sound with mountain transportation are given the same competitive advantage as the ports of the Columbia which connect with the Interior via the Columbia river route Thus, without even a claim of Justifica tion, the communities of the Columbia basin are denied the benefits of their natural advantages. As every develop ment effort In the Columbia basin feels the deadening influence of the intoler able and unjust condition, determina lton Increases to correct it, ROLL OF HONOR In th roll of honor printed below are the names of the following men from the Pacific Northwest : - KILLED IN ACTION MEOHANIO HUBERT O. MORRIS, emer gency addreas. Herbert N orris, 768 East Davis street. Portland, Or. PRIVATE DON V. HOFNAQLE. emercencj addree, Fred Jorgenson. Preston,-Or. Or. PRIVATE LEONARD C. ORITCHELL. emer gency address Pheren D. Ott, Hebo. Or. DIED OP WOUNDS . PRIVATE OLAP P. ERI0K8ON, emergency address, Mrs. Irene-Toeoba, 3119 North Twen tieth street, Tacoma. Wash. DIED OP DISEASE PRIVATE HENRY O. ROBINSON, emergency address, Mrs. Clara B. Bobinson, Canyon Creek. Idaho. PRIVATE JASON ARRELL, emergency ad dre. Mr". Inra Arrell. Independence, Or. rniVATK DikiinT CLARK, emergency aaaress, jnnn r. i- i utk, t. Antnony, Idaho. PRIVATE CHESTER A. SIMMONS, emerg ency addrsss. Mrs. Louina Bubsobs. K. F. D. B. uaiem.. r - .... WOUNDED SEVERELY r-mvMTa BLsxan sine, emergency aaaress,. jars. iora iieesem. Uoy, idano. tCoedndtd-.o Pace tbirteea, Column One) Two Rewards of $1000 Each Are Up for Arrest of Officers Slayei County and Interstate Bridge Commission vPost Offers for Robber-Murderer. Police and deputy sheriffs today are searching for a gray Hupmobile road ster which carried from the scene of Tuesday night's murde.' of Deputy Sher iff Frank W. Twombley the slayer and his woman companion. The crime was committed at Union avenue and Co lumbia boulevard about 10 :45 p. m., Tuesday, when the officer was endeav oring to make an arrest for violation of the speed regulations. Twombley did not know at the time that his man was trying to get as far as possible from the Interstate bridge, where he had Just robbed C. G. Herrman. the bridge tender. Sheriff Hurlburt this morning posted reward of (1000, by authority of -the board of county commissioners, for in formation leading to the arrest of the murderer. An additional reward of $1000 was offered by the Interstate bridge commis sion. Soldiers See Robbery Two soldiers who saw the robbery on the bridge from a distance said the man appeared to be about 30 years old, about f feet 10 inches tall, weighing 140 to 150 pounds, wore a long black overcoat and dark hat and suit. The woman ap peared to be small, with black turban hat and black furs. The soldiers told Sheriff Hurlburt this morning that they overheard the man say as he Jumped Into the automobile. "I've got it. let 'er go." The woman. who was at the wheel, then drove rapidly away toward Portland. They did not at the moment appreci ate the fact 'that & robbery had been committed, though they passed; close to am car. When the automobile dashed away, however, they, became suspicious and told their commanding officer at Vancouver barracks, who dispatched the military police to the scene, .--.."it ''. The , officers reached Union avenue and Columbia boulevard just as Twom bley was being picked up and placed In an automobile. They saw . at no time, (Concluded on Pac Two. Column Thtm) STATE NEAR GOAL Sum of $168,631 Lacking; State Director Confident of Suc cess by Tonight. With a total reported subscription amounting to 1981.369 today. State Dl rector O. W. Davidson expressed confi dence that Oregon will have attained its amended quota of $1,150,000 in the United War Work drive when the cam paign officially comes to a close to night. The amount already subscribed is $211,369 above the original quota of $770,000, but lacks $168,631 of reaching the amended quota. Twenty-nine counties haa gone over the top at the time the report was compiled Tuesday night, but the cam palgn was being pushed with vigor In every -section in an effort to attain not surpass the state's quota. Three More Counties Score -If Marion, Yamhill and Sherman coun ties Joined the 100 per cent list Tues day, Polk county today. Deschutes county maintains its early lead with percentage of 171. Other counties at taining the amended quotas are Colum bia, Benton, Multnomah, Hood River and Baker. Of the state's grand total. Portland has contributed $475,000, an oversub scription of its assigned quota amount lng to $25,000. City Director Ames ex pects this amount to be materially in- i Concluded on Put Two. Column One) 300 Soldiers Help Search for Child Lost at Estacada About 300 soldiers from Vancouver barracks, started out this morning in conveyances supplied by the city and the National League for Woman's Serv ice to continue the searcn for the miss ing 5-year-old son of Mr! and lira. W. H. Thompson, who disappeared last Wednesday near Estacada. - Paul- Eckleman of the' Riverview dairy, a friend of the Thompson family. Interested himself in the search and ap plied to the officials at Vancouver bar racks. Colonel C. E. Van Way agreed to allow the men to Join in the search but was unable to supply transporta tion for- them. Mr. Eckleman stated that the terri tory near where the boy disappeared is covered with heavy underbrush and would require persistent searching. After appealing to the city for help, about 15 trucks were sent- from the bu reau of public works, the health depart ment, the water bureau . and . the park board.. - The National League - for Women's . Service mustered : In all cars at its command and the company left Vancouver about 7:30. this morning. IN U. W. W. DRIVE "THE DAY" IS OVER FOR THE GERMAN FLEET PHOTOGRAPH of the German battle fleet steaming at sea, taken just before the outbreak of the war, when the kaiser was challengin g the supremacy of England as mistress of the seas. For years German naval officers drank each night a toast to "the day" when Ger many should destroy British naval power. Now the fleet has been surrendered to the allies without a fight. t y st v-csK-r- , y . t NAVAL WEAKNESS Of HONS EXPOSED Captain Persius, Critic, in the Berliner Tageblatt, Says Fleet Never Menace. London. Nov. 20. (I. N. S) (By British Wireless Press,) The hope that the German fleeffwould be able In second Skagerrack battle, to beat the British fleet rested upon bluff and the lies of the German naval authorities. writes Captain persius. famous Ger man naval critic. In an article in, the Berliner Tageblatt. . Captain Persius has chosen the mo ment when the finest vessels or tne German navy are about to be surren dered to the allies to publish his. sen sational revelations about the German navy. In August, 1914, Germany had about 1,000,000 tonnage In warships whlla Great Britain had .more than double that amount and, thanks to the mis takes of Von Tlrpitz, the German ma terial was quite inferior to the British, Captain Persius points out. German Lotiet Eoormon In the Skagerrack battle the German fleet was saved from destruction part ly by good leadership and partly by favorable weather conditions. Had th weather been clear or Von Scheers leadership less able the destruction ot the whole German navy would have re sulted. The long range British guns would have smashed completely the lighter armed German ships. As it was, the losses of the German fleet were enormous and on June 1 it was clear to every thinking man that the Skagerrack battle must be the only one of the war. On all sidei Von Tlrpitz was advised to construct onlv submarines, but he remained ob stinate. On October 1 several members of the relqhstag made an , earnest appeal to the army command and not to the naval staff, with the result that an order was issued terminating the con struction of German battleships in or der that the material might be em ployed In building U-boats. Great Scarcity ef Material In the meanwhile there was so great a scarcity of materials that it became necessary to disarm a number of bat tleships and take the metal secured in this manner. . At the beginning of 1916 23 battleships were disarmed, among them one newly built cruiser. At the beginning ot this year, con cludes Captain Persius. the German navy consisted only of dreadnaughts and battleships of the Helgoland, Kat ser and Margraf type and some few battle cruisers. All of the ships which Von Tirpits constructed from 1897 to 1906 at cost 'of Innumerable millions, had been destroyed-and the U-boats were unable to fight against the British,, warships Persius in ms arucie goes on. to say that .von uappeue constructed very few submarines and work was continued: only on the construction of bigger U-boats. TJBoat Crews Scarce The report that Germany's subma rine losses were negligible Is untrue. Persius says. In 1917 S3 submarines were con struct ed and 66 were destroyed. Ia April of that year Germany had 12 U-boats and In October 146. In Feb ruary, 1918, Germany had 136 subma rines. In June, of the same year the German navy had 111.. Those were called "Front, submarines' though. as a matter of ' fact very few of them, were actively occupied.. In 'January.' 1917, - when condition! were favorable for submarine activt ties - only 12 per cent were on active duty. Thirty per cent were in harv bors and St per cent -were undergoing repairs. . Submarine crew were not sufficiently educated and trained and looked with great ' distrust upon this , weapon. In the last months, of the war it was very difficult In Germany . to get" men for submarine crewai'.Captain Persius .ad- Germanic Dream Of Sea Control Is Blasted By Frank H; Simonds Copyright, 101S. New York-Tribune Inc. IV TEW YORK, Nov... 20. It is Y thage that one must turn for 1CUUCI VVillLII lUUdji UC3liUJ9 uci man 1 1VV-J. Ul niiuig WK control of the seas from Great Britain. After Zama, the. Cartha ginian state accepted a peace by leet, save 10 galleys, were surrendered to tne Komans. ro per shed the last serious challenge by any organized state to Roman world supremacy for many centuries. It is much less than a generation since the kaiser issued his challenge to the British in that historic speech in which he declared that the future of Germany was upon the seas. And from that J 1 hour almost to the present German naval officers have drunk to 1 ne uay when .British mastery And it is less than two years and his battle fleet, after Jutland, arrogantly and mendaciously pro- rTaimH that tho rral hart hppn maintain tho rtoninn rf Tra fa 1- gar abolished. We see now how foolish was that 1 claim. Ignorant still of the comparative losses on that memorable occasion, we know that from that hour on the Ger- man fleet never again risked batUe with , the great- enemy. More than this, when I an was lost on iana we are mrormea ; that the sailors of the battle fleet mu tinied rather than obey orders to follow the example of Cervera, at SinUago, and go out to certain destruction, rather than surrender lgnominiously. Jatland Decided Sea Supremacy Whatever the Immediate circum- stances of Jutland then, its consequences were exacUy those of Trafalgar. Sea power . remained in the control of the British. The blockade of Germany was not broken. From its post in the north of the British Isles the great British fleet kept watch while the lesser war ships convoyed 22,000,000 of allied sol diers to the scene of battle. Starving at home, overwhelmed by the mass of fresh troops brought from every quarter of the globe, German mil itary power wasted away to the hour when nothing was left but to go to Senlis and surrender as Lee surrendered at Appomattox courthouse. When, on August 1. the British battle fleet, already mobilized, moved to its battle station, the war at sea was lost to Germany. Within a few brief months the last of the German ships at sea had been sunk or forced to intern. The German flag had disappeared from the ocean. Winston Churchill, and many other orators, uttered foolish words about "digging the rats out," but these words ..missed the whole fact of the sit uation. Unless Germany could win a Salamls, her doom was sealed. The British navy had taken her by the throat, and would hold her until allied armies could be organized and could perform their task. Sea Phase Britain's Share The submarine war was a deadly peril, only Imperfectly perceived at the outset. It was the deadliest thrust of Germany after her defeat at the Marne. But this threat, too. the British navy met, gallantly aided both by the French and by the American navies ; and even this precious aid was slight. The sea phase was the British share, the big Job ; and how well it was performed we see today, when the pick of the enemy's fleet, the best of that armada, so care fully prepared against the day of Ger man reckoning, sails to BrlUsh ports, there to surrender without firing a shoe Here Is a new vindication of all that Mahan asserted In the days before the present conflict. Here ts an ultimate demonstration of the real power of BrU" tain. Her fleet has saved the war, her fleet has won the war. not by a Trafal gar or Salamls, Just as the Germans have not attempted an Aegospotaml, unless Jutland was such a venture. But after four years of. eeaseleas press u re, unbroken blockade, without .bat Ue the .German fleet ,has surrendered on the by War e to the wars of Rome and Carr a parallel for the giganticsur the terras of which all their battle ot the ocean should be destroyed. a half ago that the kaiser, visiting most ignominious terms In naval his tory of modern Umea. Had the German armies triumphed on land to the extent that those of Ne poleon triumphed, the world war might have lasted as long as the War of tne ureat Emperor. Only victory on lanu couia complete tne victory on tne t water. But while the British fleet re- tained control of the seas, the oppor tunity was always preserved against the moment when It could be embraced. World Owes Freedom to Fleet I Yftno rt its 1. r. A ... A a .. I . a ....... 1 .k nhr... 'Wnm But we do know quite unmistakably what the freedom of the world . means and we are having spread before us at this hour an Impressive demonstra tion of how that freedom of the world has been preserved. Between us and German domination only the British fleet has been an unshaken barrier for j more than four years and one may doubt that, with this lesson before them, the British nation m-ill conaent to any agreements, national or international. which weakens in one slight detail, the single, sure weapon for their defense which has seen the salvation of civiliza tion. And In the defense "of their fleet which has defended the liberties of the world, our British allies can be assured Lot the overwhelming support of the American people. It is for Britain to write the law of the seas if she will. Oversubscription Of Fourth Loan Is v Nearly a Billion Washington, Nov. 20. The fourth Liberty loan was oversubscribed near ly one billion dollars. The approximate final figures an nounced by the treasury department are 16.989,047.000. which represents an oversubscription of 1S.48 per cent. An interesting fact revealed today La that purchases of Liberty bonds ofh fourth .loan direct from the treasury department amounted to $11,220,858. A good p4rt of this sum represents rein vestment ' by the alien property cus todian of funds belonging to enemy aliens.. . t , , Bvery one of the 2 federal reserve districts exceeded Us scheduled quoa. The Boston district, 'with an over subscription of 26.44 per cent, made the best showing. American Airman Missing With the American Army of K-cupa- tion, Nov. 19. (11 a. m.) (Delayed) (I. N. 8.) Lieutenant Jay Gudeof New York is the latest American airman re ported missing., Lieutenant Gude ts the son of Major Gude, head of Nsw York advertising f lir - sun; 20 U-BOATS Enemy Commander Meets Admiral Tyrwhitt 30 Miles Off Harwich and Turns Over His Vessels British Crews Take Charge and Germans Will Be Returned to Own Country in Hun Transport. H' ARWICH, Nov. 20. (U. P.) Twenty U-boats surrendered to Admiral Tyrwhitt, 30 mile off Harwich, at sunrise this morn ing. Tyrwhitt received the German surrender aboard hit cruiser flag ship. Twenty more U-boats will sur render tomorrow and Friday and the remainder later. Following their surrender, the 20 submarines proceeded with their own crews to Harwich, where they were boarded by British crews. The Germans will return to their own country later in a German transport Bear Admiral Reginald T. Tyrwhitt Is commander of the destroyer squadron -of the first fleet. Aboard the cruiser Amethvst he participated In the battle AUgUSt 37, 1J14. . Ji4AJJ. participated. In the North sec engage'; meh of January 24, 1915, when the Ger v -. man cruiser Bluecher was sunk. , i r-. Harwich is a seaport ta Essex county on the east coast 65 miles northeast of , London. Its strongly defended harbor : is one of the best in Engliand. London. Nov. 20. (L ' N. S ) Oer- vmssmw KAstM trsn Artntr Ksw n si v t A the allies today. 20 submarines being: turned over to a British fleet in th XswaK fiaa . A en A arVaasl V fls flf battleships and destroyers win givs teir up to an allied neet m the worm "J tTlZoZ. 'TFESkX batue squadron win take part and King George will witness the Uerroan Sttr render. ' After the submarines had been turned over to Admiral TyrwhiU's fleet this morning the flagship Curacoa began-; steaming towards Harwich harbor fol lowed by the now helpless U-boats. The submarines carried only small" navigating crews. - , ' Admiral Tyrwhltt's squadron wss made up of light cruisers and destroy ers, which had arrived at the rendez vous last night to receive the former terrors of the seas. It was ready and waiting at daybreak- when the German craft began coming up through the fog. Berlin had reported by wireless that 'Concluded oa Face Eleven. Colaaa One) METAL TRADES IN " SEATTLE PROTEST International Strike Proposed While Moo ney Is Under Sen tence to Hang. 'S Seattle, Nov. 20. L N. &") An inter national strike of labor unions In the Ignited States. Canada and England as a protest to the conviction of Thomas . J. Mooney, under sentence to hang In California for the San Francisco pre paredneos day bomb explosion. Is the plan of the Seattle Metal Trades council here today. After voting In favor. of the strike the council Tuesday evening decided to send a cablegram to Arthur Henderson. Brit ish labor party leader, asking, that or ganized labor in that country take sim ilar action. In the resolution adopted the date ef the strike is left open. Notice of ths Seattle council's action was forwarded tb the A. F. of L today. The Seattle Central Labor council at Its meeting tonight Is expected to vote , In favor ot a Mooney strike and dem- -onstraUon. The matter of a general strike over the Mooney matter is not being consid ered seriously by the officers and Impor tant committeemen of the labor' onions In Portland. 'A few men- on their Indi-'. vldnal responsibility have Jalked. a little and the subject may carpe up. In (he Central Labor council Thursday night. Unless the executive committee meeting' tonight make some positive recommen dations It is not considered likely that the matter will reach the floor. One member of the labor forces gave it as hie oplnton that no general strike would be considered so far as the Portland unions are concerned. "Such a .strike would not be indorsed by the lnteraa tion. he said, "and that would mean no strike benefits- f-