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TttlS UKfcLiUN DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, TUESDAY, APRIL , UZO. HUNDREDS DEAD AND INJURED III SAXONY FIGHTING By George Wltte gpaetei Cible to The Jotirtul nd Th, Chican Oallr Nam. Copyright 120, by Chtesso IHilj New, c.) Halle, Saxony, March 25. (Via Copenhagen, Denmark, April .) The turmoil of battle greeted me when I arrived here last night. From all directions 1 hear the sharp rata tat of machine guns and the boom ing explosions of hand grenades and mines. The" darkness of the un llghted streets was torn asunder every now and then by the glare and flashing of burning powder. Every where I turned I ran into the havoo of wild street fighting. -..The rails on the streetcar lines had been torn up and deep holes in the tracts and shattered w ills attested ruth less methods in warfare. TROOPS COSTEOL MITCAIIOir - Today, following the arrival of several thousand reichswehr troops from Magde burg and Hanover and some desultory .street fighting between them and the armed militia of the worklngmen's coun cil everything la again comparatively quiet Now and then one hears the un mistakable sound of machine funs and hand grenades, but the Information la given out that these are used only to Intimidate the populace and disperse as semblages of workingmen whose attitude eefna to be threatening. , . The morgus and undertaking estab lishments throughout the city are full of dead and the hospitals are unable to take care of the wounded who were the victims of the last two days of fight ing. It Is believed that more than 100 persons were killed and (00 wounded. - Last night the whole city was envel oped In a veil of impenetrable darkness. W1HE HERV1CK HALTED -',No water was to be had and telegraph and telephone connections were abso lutely cut off. For thst reason, tele grams are being sent from here to Ber lin by courier for transmission to other points. i . . ... j ucra la nu uqudi dui mat me reicns wehr troops, with s superior number of field and machine guns, have won out in the battles with the armed work ingmen, but the bitterness among these Is so great that a new outbreak may be expected at almost any hour. A few plants have resumed work on a small scale but by far the larger num ber of the many important Industries located here have been unable to get enough of their employes back to en able them to resume work. iic iirwicur, gun. electric ana water works employes are still out on strike and for -that reason the Inhabitants are extremely discontented with the admin istration. rmi i nu ii ii 1 1 it ii it Woodlark Building SASSAFBA8 BARK Spring; tonic .". ounce lie x ounces We round 8ie STROP YOLK WATF.B GLASS Preserve your egps for winter now. Ptnt. He i quart. iOfi Vi 'al.. JSe; KRlloa. 11.09. 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OTHER KING i " c-"' s5v. wty t'i """aaaassaaisjssj if" i AfP"'5 Top PtK)to shows Admiral von Horthy taking oath as regent before the Hungarian parliament aaeembled in the Diet at Budapest. The admiral la seen In left center with hand upraised taking the oath. BottomPhoto shows Emir Felsal, son of the king of Hedjas, In specting guard of honor at Aleppo shortly after being crowned king of Syria and the rautrles of Palestine and part of Mesopotamia. Left to right Kalmil Pasha, A. D. O. to king of Hedjaz (wearing fez); Major General Sir H. Mac Andrew: King Felsal of Syria; and Gaffar Pasha, military governor of Aleppo. Recent reports from the East state that Felsal has ordered French troops In Syria to quit Syria. Arab chiefs in Palestine have ordered that the British quit the terri tory within a few days. Wherever one turns one finds barbed wire fences and barricades built from furniture and beer barrels blockading the streets. These defenses are now manned with reichswehr soldiers armed with machine guns and ready for the new outbreak which the authorities fear. Many of the' men are sleeping fully Woodard, Clarke H. H. Green Stamps Given Alder ANOTHER 100 of These Little Have Been Secured. Priced TALCUM POWDERS Bewltrhlngly Fragrast 25c Armand's Flowers of rtiradlse Lady Mary Walts Dream Pompeian Fragrance Vantlne's Wisteria Blossom Roxey Chlnwah DJer Kiss As the Petals Sweet Pea Field s Violets Butterfly KEEP IN STEP WITH THE TIMES CARRY AN Eversharp Pencil They Are Pricad Upward From $1.00 They're so wonderfully good to look at that everyone takes pride in efficiency. Plated, triple plated, and sterling silver and gold plated. Choice of several lengths and manf styles have the sautoir rings. We make no charge for engraving any pencil valued $2.S0 or over. J CAMPHO CEDAR CHIPS have a balsamic fragrance that keeps moths away. Package lie Two packages. .le LIQUID TOILET 90AP Pleasant to use and economical. 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Reports received, here from other cities in Saxony and especially those where worklngmen's councils and republics sre still in control apparently show that the rest of the former kingdom is quiet. Leipzig is reported to be fully con trolled by the reichswehr. & Co. II II 1 1 II 1 1 II 1 1 II 1111 L at West Park Charmers A (Q) as Before TfcC SPECIAL Doz.- Nutmegs. . .lie 5 lbs. Plaster Paris for tie 1 lb. Sascara Bark for 49c Bird Seed. pkg. tie 4 i .... a- -m m i t z -r sa Announcing the Arrival of MANY NEW LAMPS .Sherwin-Williams Paints' Prepared, ready for use. Weather resistant outdoor paints, indoor paints, varnishes, flat-tone wall paints. Spe cial paints for automobiles, etc. . Jherwln-Williams are the iariressi paint manufacturers in the world. The qual ity of their products is an economy, for it allows you to save money by "doing the Job yourself." , : - v ; i ' "i " 1. 1 COOPERATION OE ByMlchal Farbman gpceial Caftl to The Journal and Th ChicMo f Kaily New. (Copyrifht 120, by Chicacb tHUt jiew Co.J Moscow, March 16. (Via Riga, Livonia, April 6.) Many things as tonish the observer In soviet Rus sia but the most amazing fact is that people accept as natural and normal things which if Introduced In Western Europe or America- would agitate public opinion great ly. For instance, the decree of January 27 uniting all the cooper ative societies into one All-Russian union and making all Russian citi sens practically members of the co operative, was accepted by the peo ple without astonishment. In introducing the decree In the cen tral executive committee , Lenin said : FULL COOPEKATI07T SOUGHT "We desire to create ;a cooperative of all workers, and not cooperatives of small proprietors clamoring for free, un restricted trade, which is nothing but freedom for profiteering for the few and poverty for the rest. Russia will become a united all-Russian cooper ative of all workers. That is our time.' I have just had a long talk with Andrew Leshava. president of the Cen tral Union of Cooperatives. "Tes," he said. "Russia is now one big cooperative union. Every eitisen is a cooperator. Soviet Russia can Justly be called cooperative Russia. The mu tual relations between the soviet gov ernment and the cooperatives have tin dergrone great changes in the last two years. At first there was a natural rivalry between the cooperatives, which founded their activities on unrestricted trade, and the government, which en deavored to monopolise trade and dis tribution. STATE ECOWOMT AIDED "However, the cooperatives have gradually been drawn into the frame of mind of the revolution and have given a most important function in state economy namely,, a share in the distribution of commodities. To the government's own organ for "dis tributing the food commissariat is re served exclusively the provision and storage of all monopolised staple com modities.- such as grain, meat, fish, i tea, sugar, tobacco and fodder, leaving to the cooperatives the provision and storage of the rest of the commodities not monopolised but controlled by the government." -4 It Is noteworthy that monopolised commodities must be delivered to the state by the producers for Beed and fodder. Non-monopolized commodities may be sold and distributed by the producer. Non-monapollsed food is stored exclusively by the cooperatives. As a rule, the cooperatives do not pay me producers, instead, they are supposed to exchange manufactured commodities for produce. The great-1 est difficulty so far has been the lack of manufactured goods and the wil lingness of the peasants to part with their products for money. SPIRIT OF TRUST 18 SHOWS "That difficulty has now been over come." said M. Leshava. "Propaganda by the government and cooperatives has succeeded in imbtting the peasants with the spirit of solidarity and trust In the new state. This year their de livery of monopolized articles as well as food was excellent, and now the food commissariat and the cooperatives possess sufficient stores to satisfy all the needs of the cities. The only dif- ficulty at present Is the breakdown of the transportation system." . . The. president of the cooperatives then spoke long and bitterly about the effect of the allied blockade on the food distribution. The occupation of Baku and the prohibition by the Brit ish of oil shipments to Russia had stopped many factories and prevented the use of the big fleet of small craft on the Volga for bringing fish from Astrakhan to the starving Russian cities. FISH IS PLENTIFUL It is said that there are more than 5.000,000 pounds of dry fish in the Astrakhan state fisheries. Considering that the total annual fish consumption of the whole of Russia is about 12. 000.000 pounds, this quantity could have greatly alleviated the critical food situ ation. Tt was impossible to move the fish first because the Volga was blocked by the Whites several times, and also because the lack of Baku oil prevented the use of the railroads and the Volga ships, and Astrakhan itself was bombarded by British aviators and the fish stores were hit, with the re sult that several workers were killed. "Yet," said the president, 'we are ready to forgive and , forget We wel come the awakening of Europe to the truth that the Russian revolution is irrevocable and that the blockade of Russia is hitting not only the Russian but the European workers as well. TO FACILITATE DISTRIBUTION The transportation will improve, and when this is accomplished the food dis tribution will be facilitated. That will also be true as to the possibilities of exports of food and raw materials to Europe." In reply- to my question as to what h thought about the allies' desire to trade exclusively with the coooeratives. M. Leshava said : "We welcome it for : we ourselves wish trade with the co- operatives. But If Lloyd George and ! the supreme council think that while j trading with the cooperatives they can j continue hostility , to the soviet 'govern-1 ment they are greatly mistaken The j cooperatives are now simply a part of the soviet government Pood distri- i button throughout the country is now entirely in our hands, and food stor age, with the exception of bread and meat is also our function. During the civil war our cooperative movement split and the Siberian, South Russian and Archangel cooperatives started an independent trade policy. Now that Is ended. CENTRAL U510X JOISEI) ! "Two of the greatest Siberian coop eratives have joined the general union. The Odessa cooperatives are already with us and have transferred to the central union their agreement with the British society of wholesale cooperative unions." j M. Leshava explained that the desire to resume trade relations had not yet entered the stage of actual: business. The Russian cooperatives would ' con sider that a real start had been made if, they were permitted to send their own delegations to Europe and Amer ica, He pointed out that their only representative now In Kurope was Lit vinoff. the others in Europe and Amer ica having left Russia long ago, when the cooperatives were quite j different, and consequently ; they were not able to speak for-the cooperatives, et -Uadav. L NEW FOOD CONTROLLER i OF GREAT BRITAIN i . i ft M C. A. McOurdy, noted food and trans portation expert, who has been ap pointed food controller of Great Britain. Mr. McCurdy faces a most difficult and important task In these days of reconstruction. Revolution Changes Prices in Germany Berlin, Germany, April 5. One result of the revolution is a marked change in the attitude of the shopkeepers towards the "auslanders" or foreigners. Previ ous to March 13, from 25 to 200 per cent was added to the prices plainly marked on goods. Today at three different shops I bought goods at the marked price and no mention was made of the "auslander" tax. I was also treated with great con sideration. 13 lis t V w:i I Jv . i ' k - i n 'A 1 -iiiiMi I Essau I J U Ta-BVirQ - . r nrm Ti I amnw t RUSSIAABAHDONS SOVIET SYSTEM, REPORT IN LONDON By Edward Prlco Bell Special Cable to The Journal sad the Cbteo Daily Neva. (Coprrifht. Ia0. by CUeaso Deij Newt Co.) London, , April 6. Authentic ad vices received by the British govern ment show that Russia is systemat ically abolishing the soviet system. Workers' Soviets in the industries are no mora, declare these advices. They have been officially dissolved. Formerly each factory elected dele gates who formed a workers" soviet for the district. These Soviets elected delegates to the central soviet from which was formed the all-Russian congress of Soviets, which in turn elected commissars who formed the government. Now works or plant dictators have been appointed with direct responsibility to the commissars. The latter are ex erting themselves to the utmost to In crease production. ; especially in the munitions factories. At the present moment the following large industrial concerns have beeii set in motion In Moscow and Petrograd: The French Gougon Munition A Tool works, em ploying 5000 hands : the French Jacquan Steel works. 600 hands; the Hubner Lace mills with munitions adjunct, 1000 hands ; indel's factory, onoe engaged in the manufacture of articles of peace but now making munitions. 2800 hands ; the Dax Motor works, making airplanes, and the Simson works, making agri cultural machinery, 600 hands each ; the Harvester company, making agricultural machinery. 2000 hands. Other works employing 12,000 hands are also in operation. The observer who reported the fore going facts and whose opportunities for ascertaining the truth could not have been better, says that the industrial outlook in Russia improves exactly in proportion to the substitution for the soviet methods of the methods of the THE PORT OF PORTLAND'S MODERN FACILITIES THE HARBOR OF PORTLAND POSSESSES TWENTY-SIX DOCKS (exclusive of industrial and river steamer wharfs) with a berthing spade of ,19,385 feet and a storage capacity of 332,000 tons for general freight, 25,000,000 gallons of fuel oil and millions of feet of lumber. Its docks are equipped with modern facilities that assure prompt dispatch, and have sufficient railway trackage connections to expedite the further distribution of ships' cargo. ANTICIPATING THE GROWTH OF FOREIGN COMMERCE, and real izing the Inadequacy of private docks to properly handle future shipments through this port, the City of Portland issued bonds for 112,500 000 00 to be used for port construction and Improvements. Four modern terminals costing in excess of 7,ooo,ooo.oo have been built and are now operated by the municipality through its Commission of Public Docks. All municipal terminals are completely equipped with modern freight handling machinery and up-to-date fireproof storage. Following Is a summary of their capacity: MUNICIPAL TERMINAL. NO. l, located at the foot of l5th street, offers berthing space for one 500-foot vessel and two 4 50-foot ves sels, has storage capacity of 20,500 tons of general freight and trackage accommodations for seventy railway cars. TERMINAL NO. 2, formerly called East Washington Street Terminal, has frontage of 526 feet, capacity for S0OO tons general freight and trackage allowing the placement of twenty cars. TERMINAL NO. 3, at the foot of Pittsburg street, has 640 feet berthing space, 5000 tons general cargo capacity and trackage for twenty-eeven cars. TERMINAL NO. 4. at St Johns, soon to be the largest water depot on the Pacific coast, today offers 3000 feet berthing space with a genersl cargo capacity of 85.000 tons end storage for 10.0O0.000 feet of lumber. When completed this terminal will be equipped to handle fourteen large vessels at one time. The existing six miles of trackage will be increased to sixteen miles, and will thus offer a rail-and-water combination of flexibility and expansive possibilities, where all operations car. be per formed with economy and dispatch. OTHER HARBOR FACILITIES NOW OFFERED by the port include a 1 000 000-bushel grain elevator, great steel tanks for bulk storage of vege table oil a port drydock accommodating vessels up to 10,000 tons, extensive plants for shipbuilding and repairing, a floating machine shop and ample facilities for coaling vessels duriijg" discharge or loading cargo. fttwESB PUBLIC DOCKS AND FACILITIES, coupled with 1 Portland's year-round favorable weather conditions, assure prompt dispatch for all carriers making this port This speedy dispatch will win world-wide recognition for the Port of r .mi thui a rreat shlnDina industry will be created which will open numerous new trade channels to the whole state Of Oregon. THE NORTHWESTERN NATIONAL BANK FOBT1AKD OBEOOJi A'Tertiiemeai He. ! a Greater great, industrial and commercial nations of the world. He reports that Russia, though cultivating only 10 per cent of her former area, has a large Quantity of grain for export. He asserts' that pressed by necessities from every, side the people have turned from slaughter ing add persecuting their enemies to feverish efforts ' to Improve the trans port conditions as the foundation of an economic revival. : "The Reval-Moscow line," be says, "is Under construction. Locomotives and machinery in adequate quantities would work wonders in Russia almost over night Ukralnla's black earth and con sequently the province's granaries, are at the disposal of the Russian authori ties. Very soon other raw materials such as timber, hides and leather from the north will be obtainable In Russia owing to the gradual abolishment of the transport chaos, What fascinates the foreign onlooker, particularly here is the visible assertion as the days pass of natural human gifts, qualities and neces sities over visionary political and social abstractions." Quadruplets Born Paris. April 6.-1. N. 8.) Out of the most remarkable cases ever called to the attention of the French Academy of Better for you than or coffee Instant Postum Delicious coffee-like flavor - - I Ml I I . of Series uregoa" Medicine has- just been presented by -Professor Plnard. A Madame Dubreull, living in Vendee, who had previously brought Into the world six children, save t birth to quadruplets, two boys ' and t wo J girls, all in perfect health. Statistics gathered by the academy show that) quadruplets are born only one time; out of every 2,100,000. : s British Ships Take, Troops to Turkey Malta. April 6. (I. N. S.) The Brit ish transports Workman and Tsar left for Constantinople today carrying troops. Winnipeg 1 Preferred London. April 6. (I. N. .) John Saunders and James Stanley, sentenced to 18 months and one year respectively far bigamy, jointly petitioned the court to have the sentence changed to strokes with the cat-o'-nine-iatlK. .lustlre Dar ling refi'.Ned "to oblige the prisoners," expressing an Intimation, that he'd like to, but the law dlrh't permit it. Made instantly in the cup. Costs less than tea or coffee. Sold by all grocers r- rr mMs a v
