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THE OREGON DAILY- JOURNAL, PORTLAND, MONDAY, JANUARY , 13, 1919. CANADIAN TELLS FINE RECORD OF "PRINCESS PATS" Five Times' Heavy Replacements Were Made in Ranks by Mc- Gili and Other Universities. TELLS OF GERMAN BRUTALITY Treatment Accorded Prisoners Captured by Hun Was Un warrantedly Severe. By Fred Loekley When r was In London on my way tack to America. I was looking over the register at the Eagle Hut. when a soldier In Canadian uniform stepped up to me and satd. "Are any; of the" secre taries here from Minneapolis?" Telling him to tae a seai i mo mu.o and read tHl I returned, I hunted up one , of the secretaries In charge, to see If I could find anyone from Minneapolis. There happened to be none on hand, but, as I had met a secretary who had Just arrived In London from Minneapolis. I went back to the Canadian soldier and gave him the secretary's name and ad dress. ,. The soldier had a boyish face, but his hair was white. He was a handsome Chap. He looked intelligent and cul tured. ' Pointing to the initials P. P. C. I I.. on his shoulder. "What do the Initials on your shoulder stand for?" Proud of Keeord lie ' answered, "Princess Patricia's n.Ajian T.ierVit Tnftinf rv Yes: I'm Viuiauii we"" -' ' mighty proud of the record made by the Princess Pat's. When they went across, there were 11.000 medallists In the regiment. Many of the members of the regiment had fought In the Boer war ; others were members of the North west Mounted Police. Some of the chaps came from your side of the line and had fought in the Spanish-American war. They were a wonderful bunch of men. "Am vtti Irnnor thAV were cut all to pieces shortly after they reached France. McGUl university undertook the task of keeping the regiment up to its full strength. They have had to send heavy reinforcements five times to replace cas ualties. ,A very large proportion of the men sent were college men. being stu dents or graduates of McGill university and of the other universities and col leges to Canada. "My name? It ts Harry Drope. I enlisted at Reglna on August 1, 1918. I was Sent directly from England to Ypres and was In my first fight at Kemmel htil. which had Just been re raptured from the Germans. We had some heavy going on June 2, 1916. More than 500 of our men were put out in less than five hours. Colonel Is Killed "Our colonel. Colonel Buller, as well as manv of the officers, was killed 'there. Our senior major. Major Gault, who raised and equipped the regiment, lost hts leg there. He has been seriously wounded five' times, but you can't keep him out of the 'service. When he had become accustomed to using his artifi cial leg, he went back to his regtment. He. is a good type of most of the men in the regiment. He Is In his early thirties and Is a courageous and re sourceful fighter. To his. great grief he was ordered back from the front on acaount of his artificial leg. He tried hard to get into the air service, but the loss of his leg knocked him out there, too, but because of his wonderful record he was allowed to stay and serve In France. "Y,es, he la very wealthy, but none of the boys hold that against him because Via la iv.rv tnrh a venl man a nA thr Isn't a chap in the regiment who doesn't worship him. Casualties "Were Heavy "Our officers didn't last long. Cas ualties were extremely heavy. We have had five different colonels. -"I same to grief myself in that same fight- on June 2, at Kemmel hill- . X happened to be with a group of men at the extreme point of the salient.. We could have retired, of course, but we de cided tO Stick It OUt. : "The Germans came over, wave after wave, and the first thing we knew, we were fighting a circle of Germans on all aides of us. Most of the chaps in the salient were killed. I was out of commission from shrapnel wounds. The Germans piled into the trench and took prisoners those of ' us who were left alive. "We were sent on a three day trip by rail to a prison camp at Dolmen, in Westphalia. There were about 3000 prisoners there, mostly French, British and Colonials. Htir Vied ia Prison "After I had been there a month, the doctor said that my wounds were suf flciently healed for me to work, but I was pretty weak and the watery soup and oae half pound Of bread a day we were given, did not build up my strength any. A good many of our chaps died from lack of nutrition. , "The Saxons and Bavarians are pretty decent citizens compared with. the Prus sians. "A small group of the British t this camp were transferred to Heilsberg, In East Prussia, for being refractory and insubordinate. By accident, my name was included lnXhe bunch. Upon Inves tigation, however, they found that I did not belong with the ones that were go- lng to be punished, but, as it would nave got the officer who Included my name Into trouble, they decided to send me anyway. Heilsberg Is Hell "If there is any hell on earth, it is Heilsberg. "I was there 22 months. We had to be up at 4 a. m., in summer, and were given a piat of substitute coffee. The people themselves were short of food. but, of course, they were fed much bet ter than we were. We had our drink of coffee early in the morning, turnip soup at 3 in the afternoon and one half pound of bread about 8 o clock at night. If it had not been for the Red Cross parcels, we would, have starved. The Russians there did starve. They died like files. "There were 59 British and five Ca nadians In the camp. "Our Job was to build roads, tear down the stone walls of the public buildings that had been damaged by the Russians when they had invaded the country, and dig ditches. It was heavy work. Germans Were Brutal "The German guards were needlessly brutal ; they would beat and kick the Russian prisoners constantly. "In winter the temperature was often 30 degrees below zero. We had no fire, no light, and Insufficient clothes. The floor of the building was covered with sand and straw which was literally alive with fleas and cooties. "Many nations were represented among the prisoners Roumanians, Rus sians, French, Italians, Belgians, British and Colonials. "The sanitary conditions were un speakable, and the Germans constantly tried to stir up racial hatred among the prisoners. In the winter-time we turned out' at 6 a. m. We were given our turnip soup and went to work at 7 a. m. We worked straight through till 3 p. m., when we were given another ration of turnip soup, and at 8 o'clock we were furnished with one half pound of black bread. Hair Turned White "When I went there, my hair was black. Now it is white. "On June 13 of this year, I escaped with two Russians. One of the Russians had secured a map and a compass. We traveled only at night and In five days were were out of East Prussia and into Poland. - "Three weeks after we escaped, we were iccaptured. We decided, however, to get away or die In the attempt. "One of the Russians was almost all In from lack of food and fatigue. He volunteered to tackle the officer while we made good our escape, which we did whUe'the German officer and the Rus sian were struggling. We had many narrow escapes, but finally, after, walk ing 600 miles, we crossed the old Rus sian frontier at the Besina river. "All this time we had been In Ger man prison clothes, but here we secured baggy Russian trousers and, throwing away our blouses, we traveled In our ragged shirts and trousers and looked like Russian peasants. "We made our way to Moscow. I went to Captain Eugene Prince, the United .States military attache, who has lived in Russia for many years. Before the war, he was the agent In Russia for the Overland automobiles. He took ! CRANBERRY GROWERS VOTE ASSESSMENTS L FOR MUM NEEDS Cooperative Spraying System Is Urged as One' of Aims of the Columbia River Ass'n. A vote in tavor of an assessment for the future needs of the Columbia River Cranberry association was taken at a meeting of . the members ox the associa tion at the Imperial hotel Saturday eve ning, following the giving of a detailed outline of, things necessary for the growth of the association by E. M. Hul. den. secretary-treasurer of the organi sation. The assessment was made for the pur pose of getting Immediate action in ob taining a cooperative spraying system to guard against worms and fungus, at the earliest possible moment Another matter Included in the assess ment was the building of a bu I table warehouse on the bogs near Seaview. Wash., detailed plans of which were announced at the meeting, and for the providing of railroad facilities to con nect the site of the warehouse 'with the railroad line. The remaining item con sldered under this fund was the provid lng of trays for next year's crops and packing boxes for the trays Mr. ' Hulden stated that the outlook for the next few years is particularly favorable for the cranberry growers and a specially prosperous year is looked forward to with the Institution of a better handling system at the bog site. me in his car to the British consul. Here I met an American Red Cross man who took me to the American Y. M. C A. whose secretary. Donald A. Lowrie. of Seville, Ohio, took me in and treated me as if I were one of his own folks. When I was there, one could not buy a meal In Moscow for less than 80 shillings, which is about $20 in your money. A pound of bread cost 20 shillings. Everything Disorganized "Everything was utterly disorganised There was no government from whom I could secure a passport. The Bolsbe vlks did not think they had authority to give me one, and, naturally, I could not get one from the Germans. "It so happened that when I was at the British mission. Sir William Clark. who was 'at the head of the British economic mission, was dining there. "From Moscow, we went to Archan gel, and by wonderful luck made direct connections there with a foreign em bassy boat which was about to leave. Tour government representative, David R. Francis, was aboard. "The general headquarters of the allied forces was at Murman, about 24 hours distant. "A special train was made up for the ambassadors. The embassy train con slsted of boxcars. Each ambassador and his party was given a boxcar to himself. I visited Mr. Francis, your ambassador, in his boxcar. Cannot Rejoin Beglment "On board the train I met a T. M. C. A. man from Brooklyn, who shared his lunch with toe. I also met a mighfy pleasant American T. II. C A. secre tary at Murman. H's name Is Bond. He Is building a Y. M. C. A. hut there "We iematned at Murman five days. living in cur boxcars. It looked good to see the American marines there, who were acting as military police. "I cannot rejoin my regiment, having been a prisoner of war. but I have made application to get into the air forces, so I expect io get a chance, to help win tne war in tne air. "How they hate your country! "They say that if It liad not been for the Un.ted States butting into the cam paign, they would have won the war in time. Of course, they could not have done so,' but, nevertheless, your coming In insured the right kind of an end to the war. "ies, I am very much interested in Minneapolis and have been given a fur lough, and am going there. You see, my sweetheart is an American gud and lives in Minneapolis." WSM coffee :JOv surely x wixn The favorable judgment of so many who have used A f -vSC - V liVU instead of for rs must weii&h you when you rind you should make 1 W0UNL7ED P0RTLANDER COMING JO CAMP LEWIS V f4 "T " ' ,'V " J: v v; Val If :-v vVi3 i A- ' t -si I Si 'V 'v v V'tf I - A''s j f t Lieutenant J. Douglas McKay Lieutenant J. Douglas McKay of Portland, who was severely wounded in France on October 4, has been re turned to the States and is now on his way to the Camp Lewis hospital, where he will remain for the next few months recovering from his wound's. Lieutenant McKay was with the 361st infantry, 91st division, and was in some of the hardest fighting -done by the Americans In the Argonne forest. He leceived six wounds from shrapnel, the same shell instantly killing two com rades beside him. He was taken to Base Hospital 46, and was cared for by Portland physicians and his sister-in-law. Miss Evelyn Hill, who is a nurse with that unit. Lieutenant McKay was a well known O. A. C. student, graduating in the class of 1917, and was president of the student assembly during his senior year. He is a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity. PROBLEMS OF SHEEP INDUSTRY TAKEN UP AT YAK mA SESSION SEATTLE BOLSHEVIKI BATTLE POLICE AND " SOLDIERS IN STREETS Nearly 5000 Persons Involved in Struggle When 2000 Alleged "Reds" Start Parade. Seattle, Jan. 13. U. P.) Police and radicals fought savagely- Sunday after noon. using1 fists and clubs, when more than 2000 alleged Bolshevik! and "reds" having formed a parade after their meet ing had been ordered discontinued, re sisted attempts by the police to break it up. The fight occurred when Police Cap tain Searing ordered -one of the leaders, W. H. Stumpf, to discontinue the parade. Stumpf is said to have struck Searing in the face, and Immediately,- 'the police captain became the center of a strug gling group, the fight finally spreading and affecting 6000 persons. The red flag was cheered by many. , Service men as sisted the police, despite appeals to "Join the new movement against industrial au tocracy." The police are continuing their search today efor "marked" members of the rioters. Li The meeting had as Its primary object agitation against American forces in Russia, and speakers made appeals that intervention against the Bolshevlkl cease. Strikes to tie up the shipment of supplies to allied troops in Siberia and Russia were urged. Imperative Mode Js Taboo Teacher No More .Commands Farewell, tp the imperative I, .' No longer are Portland children being taught that there is a type of sentence expressing a command. Commands went Into disfavor some time ago, and the younger generation Is being taught to speak only 1a declara tive and Interrogative sentences. New grammars, abolishing the impel tlve. appeared upon the scene last fall and city teachers are now trying to persuade the children to forget all about commands. And to bear out the state ment of the new grammar that there Is no imperative, the teacher must not speak in old fashioned imperatives. In stead of saying, "John, go to the black board.", the . teacher' ; 'must say. "John. Will you go to the blackboard T" or -John will .go to the blackboard." If she Is really sure John will go. They are having a hard time breaking habits of long duration. When the teach ers went to school there was not only an Imperative mode but . a subjunctive as well, to express, doubt. The subjunc tive disappeared a few years ago and" no sooner did the teachers get it well out of the!.' minds than the imperative was also banned. What transformation will next be made in English grammar is a matter of con jecture, say school authorities, whether there will . cease to be questions or whether everything will be questions. Association Protests Against the Variation in Wool Prices: Poi sonous Plants Discussed. Matters affecting the sheep industry of the Northwest were discussed by the wool growers at their Yakima meet ing, from which E. N. Kavanagh, as slstant district forester in charge ot grazing, and J. L. Peterson, grazing examiner of the forest service, have Just returned. , About ISO sheepmen of the Washing: ton Wool Growers' association, the sue ceesor to the Washington State Users association, were in attendance, besides representatives of the forest service and state officials, according to Mr. Peter son, representing from 250,000 to 300,000 sheep. The different prices given for wool at the different concentration points during the- war, the five-year permits in the national forests, the plants poi sonous to sheep.- the fight against scabies, and lower rates for transport ing sheep to summer ranges, were the chief topics of discussion. The association entered a protest against the variation in wool prices. Mr. Kavanagh discussed the question of five-year permits in the national for ests. It was proposed to combat the scabies by providing for special addi tional veterinary Inspectors, and com pelling sheepmen to provide certificates that their stock are free from scabies before entering the forest ranges. Mr. Peterson spoke on poisonous plants, and displayed an exhibit pre pared by him of the death camas. lupine and water hemlock, the plants causing the greatest loss among sheep. A meeting or the forest supervisors was held Saturday, at which Mr. Kav anagh explained the principles in the issuance of the new five-year permits. Just previous to the wool growers meeting, Mr. Kavanagh attended a meet ing of assistant district foresters in charge of grazing at Ogden, Utah, at which Associate Forester Potter of Washington, D. C, explained the changes necessary to comply with the issuance or tne rive-year grazing permits. Trouble Is Brewing 1 or Late Applicants For Auto Licenses Those who are tardv in annlvinsr for their automobile tags may get them selves in trouble if they do not apply for a new license at once, as Chief of Police Johnson exoecta to issue an or der ordering the officers to arrest every driver who does not have the orange ana DiacK plate on his machine. Accordinr to Assistant 5Wi-toio- r State Sam A. Koster. u-hn tv-na In Vnr-t- J lana over Sunday, about 41.500 have appnea ior plates out of the 65,- 000 who operated machines last year. The license bureau is ow about 5000 plates behind. As soon as the clerks in baiem catch up and the chief of POllCe iS notified of that tant an e ,--.t,t order is to h ImumI ah n for a license at police headquarters will Co given a receipt to show they have made application. This rin win y. honored by the officers on the street. Alleged Highway -tiODDer Arrested Earl Tavlor. alin m Tvnn ... rested Sunday evening by Patrolman Meehan and is charged with highway robbery. Tavlor is a l Art tn Tn up Lei Poy at Second and Ash streets about 7 o'clock and robbed him. Poy was held up near a doorway oh the corner, which is the same place Joy vtera or wi4 second street was held up on December 21 and robbed of a $140 check and tSSS in raiah i rtaisAtlnx loney. La Salle. Tichenor and Mallett al- " iiiai uayior am do in joos. Taylof has been in the hands of the nnifoa. ha. fore. -. :-. . - k ;. , Post office and banks carry 1319 War W. S. S. and Liberty Loan to Be Taken Tip Representing the Oregon War Savings Stamp organization, C. S. Jackson, state director, and Henry E. Reed, associate director, will go to San Francisco Tues day night to attend an important con ference of War Savings Stamp and Lib erty loan interests. Robert E. Smith, manager of the Liberty loan campaign in Oregon, will represent the loan organiza- tion at the conference, which will be at tended also by Mrs. Sarah A. Evans, rep resenting the club women of Oregon. Bud Red Used Hand Axj Says Cigar Man Bud Red was held to answer to the grand Jury this morning by Municipal Judge Rossman on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill. Red was arrested Saturday by Patrol men Henson and Calavan after he had had a fight with Oscar Larsen, cigar dealer at 7 hi North Third street Red is alleged to have struck Larsen over the Bead .with the blunt end of a hand axe. Ball was set at $500. . Maud Adams Is III Boston, Mass., Jan. 13. (I. N. S.) Miss Maud Adams, the actress, was re cuperating from a nervous breakdown today at the home of her friend. Miss Phyllis Robblna. Her speedy convales cence was expected. " ,' j CAMPAIGN FOR MORE' MEMBERS FOR STATE CHAMBER IS STARTED Balance of Power Is So Divided as to Prevent Any4Jndue Sectional Benefit. Every local commercial or develop ment organization in the state should be a member of the State Chamber of Commerce, is the theory upon which Chairman John L. Etheridge of the membership committee of the State Chamber of Commerce this . morning launched his campaign for more mem bers for the State Chamber. , Not only to it for the best Interests of the commercial development bodies of the various section of the state to be members of the State Chamber, but, according to Mr. Etheridge. it is also to the Interests of each community to have Individual representative citizens mem bers of the State Chamber. "The State Chamber of Commerce is laid out on the broadest possible lines, its organization being so arranged thai no one community can control the ac tions of the chamber. Portland with a third of the people of-the state has but two members out of 15 members on the board of directors. "Western Oregon is represented by seven directors on the board, while Eastern Oregon is represented by six members, residing In different sections of that district.' With such a division of representation, it is impossble for the state organzatlon to use Its power for selfish or sectional betterment, or to ijromote the Interests of . the metrop olis or any other one section against the interests of any other section." The voting power of any one organi sation is limited to five votes, one for each 100 members, but even Portland with its large membership is limited to five votes in behalf of .its local cham ber, the same number of votes as can Y rant hv th Eunn chamber, which has a membership of about 500 mem bers. Regardless or its size every or ganization has one vote. NEW LONG DISTANCE PHON E RATES WILL BE EFFECTIVE JAN. 21 . Pacific Coast Not Believed Af fected So Much as Thickly Settled Parts in East. Effective January 21, radical changes ia ates and telephone practices on long-distance" calls, under the new schedule of toll and long distance rates issued by Postmaster General Burle son, will be' Inaugurated. Just how much this new order will effect this district will not be determined until the of ficial map issued from Sail FranclBco office showing the arrangement ot the seven-mile quarters, controlling the fix ing of the rates, is received. The rates as laid down by the govern ment give a five cent increase to points respectively, six, 12, 18, 24, 32 and 40 miles away from the point of call, thus making the last charge amount to 30 cents in this limit. From 40 to S50 miles the country is divided into seven mile sqUares ana beyond that point into 35-mile squares. The finding of the rates depend upon this map, taking the air line distance between the points into consideration. Under the wording of the ruling, it is not thought by local officials that present rates between Portland and Ore gon City and Vancouver will be changed, as points already with the established ten cent rate will continue to enjoy this rate although no new ones of this character will be put into effect. Persons informed generally on public service matters declare that the ruling will not affect the Pacific coast to any great extent, but In the more thickly populated regions through the east where competition has lowered the rate to a great extent, the rate will be distinctly noticeable. Chicago business men have protested against the; rate because the ruling as it Is understood will Increase the class of "particular person calls.' Special night toll rates of a reduced nature will be instituted by the new ruling:. .:, CANADIA U FORESTRY OFFICIALS TO OFFER GRAZING TO STATES British Columbia Official Here to Secure. Change in Laws to Aid Stockmen How to accommodate from 60.000 to leS.OOO hAari ftf Or.n mA 1T . .1. I .. sheep and a somewhat smaller number of cattle on the forest ranges of British Columbia during the summer months at a reasonable, cost to the stock raiser Is being worked out by Thomas-P. Mac Kensle, commissioner of grazing at Vic toria. B. C, who is. in Portland. Mr. MacKensle was formerly In charge of grazing of the forest service in Port land and worked out the system which Is now universally used on forest ranges mrougnoui me country. The extent of Dominion - ranges Is ample to provide for the stock overflow of the states during the summer seasons, according to Mr. MacKensle, but the present charge of 75 cents a head for cattle and 25 cents for sheep Is . pro hibitory to the-stockman, since he must pay taxes In the United States and his grazing fee in Canada' besides. ' Mr. MacKenzle hopes? by taking up the matter with the county assessors, t arrange for assessing the stock for only a part of the season in the United States and for . the remaining assess ment to be collected by the British gov ernment for the time the herds are graz ing on Canadian ranges. The Domin ion government would then be willing to abandon its charges for stock shipped over the border. Mr. MacKenzle is much encouraged over the progress the Canadian govern ment is making along grazing lines. At a meeting of stockmen and government officials at Karaloops recently, all the recommendations for. grazing regula tions by Mr. MacKensle were adopted. A bill will probably, be passed In the Canadian legislature giving the governor authority to make the necessary regu lations. Mr. MacKenzle expects no trou ble from the legislature since the rules for . grazfng control . which, he worked out were gone over thoroughly by tne different stock committees and Indorsed by them. Although Mr. MacKenzle likes Victoria, he gets homesick occasionally for Port land, and must run down to get a glimpse of the city where he made his home for so many years. Ills family Is spending the .winter-in California. Commencement To Be Held Jan. 24 Diplomas for high school and gram mar school graduates are being made out at the office of Superintendent D. A. Grout. Commencement exercises will be held January 24 at the individual schools. Dr. William A. Waldo will do llver the commencement address at. the High School of Commerce, Dr. William Wallace Youngson at Jefferson High, and Bishop Sumner at Lincoln High school. Other schools .have not ytt an nounced their speakers. 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