GERMAN RETREAT BLAZED
BT TRAIL OF DESTRUCTION
American and English Corre­
spondents Working Separate­
ly Agree in Reports of Ruin.
BURNSUPPLIES FOR THE POOR
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Wells Polsonsd and Defiled— Fruit and
Shada Treee Cut Down— Houeea
Burned and Contenta Looted
and Wrecked.
London.— Thu skeptic who la un­
able to believe the report« of the ub-
aolute nithlcaaneHN with which the
Germans are doing their b e a t to blot
out that imrt of Krone« from which
they are retreating ahould comjmre
the following dispatches, written by
correspondents a t the front, which sup­
plement the offielul announcementa of
Uie British'and i'r«-m-li wur ofilr.n.
Theae illaputchea were sent by dif­
ferent correapondenta, two American
and two English.
Of theae one of
each, un American and an English-
man, waa with the Ilrltlah army, one
of each with the French unny. Whut
they write about they aaw with their
own eyea. Theae men are experienced
war correapoudenta and rau differen­
tiate between military damage, which
•very army muat Inflict to humper
the enemy, and malleloun pillage.
A few of the thlnga the Germans
have done and are doing In Picardy
and Artola, two of the lovelleat of the
province« of Krunco. are theae: llurn-
Ing aii|*pllea furnlahcd for the atarvlng
population by the American relief
couimlaalon, auppllea bought by Amer­
ican glfta to help people Impoverlahed
by German Invasion; poisoning and
defiling with filth all the w ells; cut­
ting down all the fruit trees and ahude
trees; burning every house, regard­
less of Its lack of military value;
amnahlng picture«, crockery, furniture
that they could not take off with them
from the homes of the peasants; leav­
ing these peasant«, women, old men,
children, with nothing to eat.
Looting Officially Ordered.
The first of thee«» dlapatchea la from
the Associated Press correspondent
who advanced through thla «eerie of
desolation with the ilrltlah troops. Ho
la an American. Thla correspondent
aaw with hla own eyes captured Ger­
man orders for the looting, which nr-
dered among other thlnga that filth
waa to be assembled near all the wella
abandoned to contaminate the water.
He refers to the wanton destruction of
the trvea, which Is more fully de­
scribed In another dispatch.
He
writes:
"W herever the Ilrltlah troops pene­
trate territory formerly held by the
Oermnns they encounter the same
conditions of destruction and devasta­
tion ns In Ilnpnume and I’eronne. Only
a few villages have escaped, the Ger­
mans In these Instance* having been
compelled to leave before their plans
to lay waste could he carried out.
"The use of cavalry by Ihe Ilrltlah
and French seems to have taken the
Germans by surprise, upsetting some
of their calculations.
In one vlllnge
supper, which had been laid out, was
abandoned, together with much am­
munition. and In other places newly
opened boxes of high explosives were
found, with which the Germans had
planned to destroy the villages be­
fore Icnvlng. Thnt the wholesale de­
struction was systematized In n man­
ner characteristic o f German thorough­
ness was shown by captured orders on
the subject.
“These directed the blowing up of
nil houses, wells and cellars, except
MANY COLLEGE MEN LOST
More
Than 35,000 German Students
Have Been Killed or Taken
Prisoners.
Berlin.— Since the beginning of the
World war over 35,000 German college
students have been killed or taken
prisoners In the different thenter* of
war and more than 40,000 are still at
the front.
According to nn official report Just
published, the number of students en­
rolled In the 22 universities of the
empire for the fifth wnr semester Is
00,041. Among them nre 5,757 women
and 1,400 foreigners. O f the enrolled
mnle students, 12,057 nre attending the
lectures.
The rest nre In the field.
Mnny of those who are able to pursue
their studies have been wounded on
the battlefield and received their dis­
charges for partial disability. Almost
every third one of them wears the
Iron cross.
Toothed tongs of much power have
been patented by n Washington In­
ventor to
weed*.
those occupied by rear guard outpoats,
the rear guard being held responsible
for making their shelters uninhabit­
able before falling back. Farming Im­
plements were nil burned or destroyed.
Wherever a building was spared. It
was first rendered filthy. The ordere
also directed the assembling of filth In
the neighborhood Of nil well* for the
purpose of contaminating the water.
‘T h e destruction of fruit trees now
apparently covers tho entire belt of
evacuated territory, even those din g­
ing U> the walls having been stripped
ofT."
Wanton Destruction of Trees.
The wanton destruction of the tree*
Is described also by the second Amer­
ican correspondent, who represents the
Associated Press with the French
army. In describing the following
touching Incident:
"Continuing our visit In floye we
encountered on the summit of the dty
an old man, tall, with white hair and
mustache. He wuved his urms, being
lucupnble at first In his emotion of
saying a word. He lived In the last
house of the town, where he hud spent
1 the existence of u savage for two
years, deciding not to see the Ger­
mans. Two days ago, realizing that
aomethlng new wns In preparation, he
went up to the roof of his house and
from afar saw masses of soldiers In
blue, their helmets scintillating In the
aun.
“ ‘I was waiting for the French,’ he
said. ‘I looked for their red trousers,
hut saw only men In unknown uni­
form. My blood turned. I said to my­
; self: Are they more Germans? But
suddenly from the small groups mov­
ing across the country came detona­
tions.
I understood they were the
French warriors, the French clothed
In blue, who hud arrived.’
"W e left the village under the guid­
ance o f this old man. The Germans,
said he. had revenged themselves even
on the fields. In fact everywhere the
trees were cut down, all the apple
trees from Itoye to Champlen, and the
fine trees along the Rolgllse road suf­
fered the same fate."
Lust of Destruction.
The correspondent of the London
Times with tho French army tella of
the destruction wrought In Chauny,
which was excusable for military rea­
sons, and then continues to describe
that which was not:
"But for the rest of their conduct
there Is uo possible defense. In vil­
lage
after
vlllnge,
especially
In
Chauny Itself, they burned whole rows
of houses for no reason whatever ex­
cept for pure spite and lust of de­
struction.
"House after bouse was pillaged,
stripped as If by burglars. In every
room that was not tired they had
taken all the contents away, or more
vilely still had smashed them to
atoms.
" I have written these things before,
when I myself have seen them In oth­
er sections of tho line. I write about
them again because I cannot Impress
too strongly the rest of the world that
the power for this particular form of
evlldolng must be taken away from
this uncivilized race. Even now, even
In England and In France Itself, peo-
plo who have not seen with their own
eyes seem not to realize what Is be­
ing done here.
“One fact may bring It home to
them. It Is the latest Invention of this
generation of house hrenkers, the new­
est refinement of doing mischief. In
the Helds between Noyon and Chauny,
many of which— a sure sign thnt the
German retreat had not been foreseen
until comparatively lately— hnd been
carefully plowed and even sown, there
were a considerable number of fruit
Talent and Work.
A tnlent does not relieve us from
Ihe necessity of working.
It only
shows us the line In which we enn
work most effectively. The girl who
thinks thnt because she has n natural
tnste for music, she can dispense with
the practice of scales, will find herself
worse off thnn another who owns that
she has no talent, but Is ready to plod.
8tatute of Limitations Applies.
Now somebody Is claiming that
America was discovered by Buddhist
monks In 458 A. D., but It Is too late
to attempt to put anything like that
ncroas. Columbus has already made
way with the goods and n motion to
reconsider Is no longer In order.-—
Houston Post.
Vain Regret«.
Do not regret that you cannot make
others ns you wish them to be, since
you cannot make yourself what you
wish to be.
trees. Every one of them within •
certain distance of the road had been
killed. They either have been sawed
through a couple of feet from the
ground and left lying where they fell
or gashed and hacked three or four
Inches deep.
"This massacre of trees must have
been carried out by at least three or
four companies acting under the or­
ders of their officers Just before the
retreat began, when the troop* were
In such a burry that they even left
behind stores of old metal which they
hnd carefully collected. I want to In­
sist upon this point, thut It Is clear
that It Is the officers of the German
army who are responsible for this par­
ticular crime of tree mutilation.”
Burned Auppllea for the Poor.
The correspondent of the Time* at
British headquarters writes as fol­
low s:
“Old men, women Hnd children, to
whom the British were only a myth,
welcomed the advance guurda with
tears.
" ’Are you manyT asked one woman
doubtfully o f a staff officer.
" ‘W e are two million now,’ said the
officer.
“The woman’s relief and Joy were
fine to see.
"W hat these people wanted was
food. They had hardly had any meat,
butter or fat for months. They say
the German soldiers are getting less
to eat now and grumble a good deal.
"W hen the French troops arrived at
Tergnler, where the Compel gnle du
Nord had large workshops and loco­
motive sheds, they found everything
destroyed by dynamite.
"A Berlin telegram which describes
the movements of the German with­
drawal, says the greatest considera­
tion was paid the Inhabitants. The
road from Chauny to Noyon was one
continual stream of refugees from the
villages beyond Chauny.
They had
been sacked and burned by the Ger­
mans. These poor refugees consisted
exclusively of women, bnbles and
small children. For weeks past the
Germans had expelled them from vil­
lage after vlllnge In prepnratlon for
the retreat. When the final moment
came their houses were sacked and
then burned before their eyes. The
refugees were left helpless without
food to await the French advance.
"A t Noyon, owing to the fact that
the Germans hail concentrated there
10,000 women and children, they prom­
ised to leave the American relief
commission sufficient supplies to feed
them. Nevertheless, the last German
patrols to leave Noyon completely
sacked the American relief store­
house of everything eatable, and then
dynamited the building. Finally they
turned the canal water with which
they had flooded the city Into Its
ruins."
P IS TO L T H R E A T H O LD S MAIO
•he
Decides She W ill Not Leave
Evanston Mletreee for Plaoe
Offering More Money.
Evanston, III.— The practice of old
feudal Kentucky of shooting tbooe who
Invade your home In search of sotne-
thlng you own will be staged in staid
old Evanston unless other women
cense enticing away the maids of ooa
society leader, late from “down South.”
Annie, maid extraordinary, la the
bone of contention.
T am leaving Saturday night,” M id
Annie, after a talk with one of her
mistress’ friends.
"Mrs. Jones will
pay me higher wages.”
“Down where I come from.” drawled
the mistress, “they shoot people for
taking thlnga of a whole lot less value
than servants. You can go with Mrs.
Jones If you want to. But some day
I am going to call on Mrs. Jones.
Either she or you Is going to answer
the door. I am going to shoot the first
one of you I see. That’s all.”
Annie Is bolding down the old Job
and Mrs. Jones Is not nearly 00 anx­
ious to hire her as she believed she
was.
K IPLING
QUITS
IN
P R O TES T
Leaves Society of Authors Because of
Charity Books Published In
Aid of W ar.
London.— The Times re-prints from
the British Weekly the following ex­
tract :
"Rudyard
Kipling,
Inclosing his
check for $500 toward the pension
fund, has sent his resignation from the
Society of Authors, on the ground that
the action of the committee and Its ac­
ceptance by his fellow members prove
that he Is altogether out of sympathy
with the present views of the society.
"Mr. Kipling’s resignation, which ap­
parently Is caused by a difference of
opinion as to the charity books pub­
lished In aid of the war. Is greatly re­
gretted by the committee.
He has
been a member of the society for 28
years.”
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Portland, Ore.— The highest
ten virtues are to be taught the
school children of Oregon. State
Superintendent of Instruction J.
A. Churchill has completed list-
lng answers of more than 1,000
teachers In Oregon as to what
they consider the ten virtues
that should be given foremost
place In the moral Instruction
planned for the common schools
of the state. The virtues re-
eelvlng the highest number of
votes In the order of preference
are:
Honesty, truthfulness, clean-
linens, obedience, respect, cour-
tesy, patriotism, kindness. In-
dustry and punctuality.
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Expensive Car Ride.
Brooklyn. N. Y — A street car ride
cost Hurry Sokolow $900.05. He got
Into an argument with the conductor
over the Jltpey and the Jury tacked
on $900 to the fare.
Miss Helen Hammond Improves each
fleeting moment, and when she Is not
entertaining or participating In vari­
ous works In which she is Interested,
she Is busy devising new designs and
decorations, for she Is one of New
York’s most gifted and exclusive deco­
rators, her prize exhibition and glory
being the Incomparably beautiful tea
garden on the roof of one of the lead­
ing New York hotels.
The talented lady touches with her
magic mind everything— grand halls,
reception rooms, galleries, rooms and
most of all most distinctive furniture.
Tell What Clothes Cost.
P R O FIT BY CHANCE REM ARK
Boston.— Statistics gathered to show
how much the girls nt Wellesley col­ Two Poor Families in Ireland Will
Get $6,000 as Result of Hint
lege spend n year, nslde from their
Dropped by Woman.
tuition and board, reveal several In­
teresting features. By classes the Ju­
San Francisco.— For twenty years
niors have the highest average, $390.27,
Mary Dougherty worked In the stew­
for expenditures on clothes, amuse­
ard’s department of a big hotel here
ments nnd travel for the first semester.
and In all that time she mentioned her
The maximum for clothes reached the
personal affairs only once. That was
sum of $<$50, while the minimum Is $20.
to tell a close friend that she had nev­
The freshmen class shows the lowest
er married because she couldn’t find a
figures on average outlay for pleas­
man as fine as either of her two broth­
ures, $3.07, nnd both this and the Ju­
ers In Donegal.
nior class demonstrated that certain
As a result of that chance remark
of their members could do without two poor fanrtlles in Ireland will get
spending a cent
$ 0 . 000 .
Foreign Experts Aid China.
China employs nearly 4,000 expert«
from Europe and America to run her
railways, post offices, etc. There are
1,105 British nnd 174 Americans on
the Job, mnny of the latter In the moat
Important offices.
Well Informed.
Btlllngton— ”1 understand his w lf«
Electric locomotives gradually are
replacing steam on the state railroads has money.” StllllngtoQ— “H e under»
stands 1L also.”
of Italy.
As far as the state of Oregon is con­
cerned, the crime o f treason does not
exist, regardless o f war.
A t least
there is no penalty for such crime, ac­
cording to lawyers who have examines
the law.
Edward Hummel, a native, but of
German extraction, waa found guilty
at Tillamook Thursday o f uttering
treasonable language before war was
declared.
Protection of animal stock as a fac­
tor in the conservation o f the country’s
food supply is strongly urged in an ap­
peal made by letter to President W il­
son by Governor Withycombe.
Secretary o f State Olcott has ad­
vised the heads o f various charitable
institutions, which receive support or
financial aid from the state, that the
claims for the last quarter cannot be
audited and paid until such time as an
agent o f the State Board o f Control
makes an investigation.
The Public Service commission has
issued an order vacating its suspension
order o f February 17 as to an increase
in class and commodity rates on the
Spokane, Portland & Seattle railroad
for transportation o f merchandise be­
tween Astoria, Seaside, Fort Stevens
and points between.
A report filed by Sheriff Burns, o f
Clatsop county, shows that $432,351.58
has been collected on the 1916 tax,
leaving $431,172.88 to be collected.
More than 50 per cent o f the latter
amount is composed o f second half o f
taxes, which w ill not become delin­
quent until next October.
Armond Pstreau, who has been in
Hood R iver for the past two week9
with his parents in the Mount Hood
district on furlough from the French
trenches, has gone to Portland, where
he w ill call on the French consul and
try to arrange for extension o f the
leave, which w ill expire next Friday.
The State Water Board heard testi­
mony in the matter o f the adjudication
o f water rights on Trout creek, in
Harney county Monday, but w ill make
no decision
immediately.
Three
groups claim water rights on the creek
— one a number o f homesteaders, an­
other Thomas & W alter, and a third
E. B. H ill, who has a filing on a reser­
voir site and has an interest in certain
lands which he wishes to irrigate. The
group o f homesteaders are opposed to
the H ill project, saying it is not feasi­
ble and never can be completed.
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For a consideration o f approximate­
ly $54,000, J. N. Scott, o f Athena, has
purchased 360 acres from W. R. Ta y­
lor. The land is situated one and a
half miles west o f Athena and adjoins
the quarter section recently purchased
by Mr. Scott from Mrs. Josephine
Stone. Both transactions were made
on $150 an acre basis, and set a new
record fo r farm land in Um atilla
county.
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Contractor P. M. Tully, o f North
Bend, has been awarded the Standard
Oil company construction, which in­
volves the erection o f a waterfront oil
depot, office buildings and docks, half
way between that city and Marshfield.
The site was purchased from
the
Southern Oregon company.
Several
large tanks w ill be placed there.
The food preparedness campaign to
be waged for the next two weeks by
the O.-W. R. & N. company under the
auspices o f the Oregon Agricultural
Colege extension service, begun at
Hood R iver Monday afternoon, when
lectures and demonstrations were given
on poultry raising, vegetable growing,
food preparation and home canning.
The huge 150-ton stack o f flax which
was stacked and roofed over last Octo­
ber by the Gaston Gardens company at
Gaston, has come through the winter
in good shape, according to the local
manager.
Stacking flax over winter
is unusual in this country. This ex­
periment has been watched with in­
terest by the flax industry in Oregon.
H. G. Rich, a mechanical and elec­
trical engineer, o f Marshfield, has in­
vented what he believes to be an im­
proved submarine net which he is
offering to the United States govern­
ment without price.
Mr. Rich has
also drawn and planned a submarine
chaser which, he says, has great merit,
and this is also being offered to the
government gratis.
When Mary was killed In an acci­
dent two years ago her locker In the
The first two weeks the rural credits
hotel was found to contain IL800 to
amendment
has been actually in opera­
cash and a bank book showing $4,000
tion show that 67 applications have
deposits.
The woman’s friend told the public been made for loans from that fund,
administrator about the two brothers and out o f this number 44 have been
In Donegal and, working through the approved. The loans asked for aver­
British consulate, he learned that the age about $2000, although some run as
brothers were Patrick and David high as $5000 and others as low as
Dougherty., David Is dead, but his five $300. Approximately $90,000 worth
children will divide the $0,000 with o f loans have been approved out o f the
Patrick.
$140,000 worth applied for.