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OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Eventa o f Noted People, Governments and Pacific Northwest and Other Things Worth Knowing. Sheep w ill be grazing on the White House lawn within a few days. Presi dent Wilson has purchased 12 thor oughbred SWropshires. Dr. Sidonio Paes, premier and for eign minister, was Tuesday elected president o f the republic o f Portugal by direct universal suffrage. Cardinal Begin, archbishop o f Que bec since 1898, was stricken with hemorrhage Tuesday. His condition is considered alarming because o f his advanced age. Cardinal Begin is 78 .years old. Serious food riots have broken out in Cracow, Galicia, the Berlin Vor- waerts reports, according to a dispatch from Copenhagen. No new shipments o f food have arrived in Cracow in sev eral weeks. AID INDIGENT ALIENS JAPS CONTROL CHINA U. S. Take* New Obligation Action Without Treaty Tw o Neutral Nations Demand* Agreed to by Pekin Give Expeditionary Forces in Si to Direct R elief Activities. beria to Control o f Japan. Washington, D. C. — With the ap proval and co-operation o f the Am er ican government, the legations o f Stockholm Advised Grand Duke Switzerland and Sweden, representing German and Austro-Hungarian in Alexis on Russian Throne. terests, have under taken to direct re lie f work among indigent enemy aliens throughout the United States. R e lief w ill be extended to needy families o f internet! aliens direct from legation funds. To aid law-abiding enemy aliens who have suffered on ac count o f their status a national com- mittee o f Americans is to be organized Ku,nor Saya New Government W ill to co-operate with the legaitions and Refuse to Recognize Peace Pact their consular offices. Signed at Breet-Litovsk. There is no obligation in existing treaties for such treatment o f enemy aliens as is proposed. In Germany and Austria many such have been detained, Stockholm— Correspondents o f Swed and most o f them are largely depend ent for support upon the food supplies ish newspapers in Finland telegraph sent in through the Red Cross or other that persistent rumors are in circula tion there o f important happenings in organizations. ’ Russia. In the case o f enemy aliens who are The most definite rumor declares now interned, the United States is lia that the form er Grand Duke Alexis, ble for the cost o f their maintenance, as in the case o f any law-breaker or son o f the former emperor, has been suspect. The Swiss and Swedish le declared emperor, with Grand Duke gations may supply them with some Michael Alexandrovich as regent and small articles o f food not provided by that the new government would refuse the internment camps’ administration. to recognize the Bolshevik peace The activities o f the legations w ill j treaty with Germany. “ The rumors would be disregarded not extend in any way to the compara here were it not for the fact that a tively few prisoners o f war in this country. The Hague treaties provide : report from Vasa. Finland, last Thurs that the cost o f their maintenance ! day, declared that the transportation shall be assessed against the enemy o f Russian civilian prisoners had to be countries until the conclusion o f peace. suspended because o f current disorders in Russia.” Finland and Sweden have had no tel WILFLEY MISSOURI SENATOR egraphic communication with Russia in more than three weeks. MAY BATTLE TEUTONS Shanghai Thu statement is made in the first issue o f the Shanghai Gazette that the Chinese government has agreed to new demands made by Jap an. which are o f such a nature that the country has virtually been turned over to the Japanese. The Gazette assorts it has l>een in formed by a high official at Pekin that the Japanese demands are far more serious than those in group V o f the famous 21 demands made by Jupan in 1915. “ Notwithstanding the fact that the utmost secrecy is being observed,” ays the Gazette, ” it may be stated safely that the following is not far from the true terms o f the agreement: “ Chinese expeditionary forces sent to Silieria shall he commanded by a Japanese. “ Chinese police shall bo organized by Japanese officers. “ Japan shall control all o f China’s arsenals and dock yards. “ Japan shall have the privilege o f working mines in all |>arta o f China. “ Special privileges shall be granted to Japun in Outer and Inner Mongolia and the whole o f Manchuria.” A dispatch filed in Pekin A pril 4 said it was reported there that Japan had submitted a new series o f demands to China, including complete control o f China's finances, the purchase o f 50 per cent o f China’s ammunition in Japan, operation o f Chinese iron mines and dock yards under Japanese control and recognition o f special Ja|tanese in terests in Mongolia, as in Manchuria. U. S. M INES PAÏ WAR’S GRIM TOLL Total Casualties Placed by War Department at 278. 1 COMPANY HARD HIT Information Ixicking as to Hector Held by “ Soldiers o f the Sea.” Who Were Pershing's Vanguard. Washington, D. C. The total lossea o f the brigade o f marines with the American expeditionary force in France so far reported was announced Friday by Major General Harnett, commandant o f the corps, as 278, di vided as follows: Killed in action, 22; died from wounds, 10; died from acci dents, 2; wounded in action, 244. A ll the dead are enlisted men, but eight officers, two captains and six lieutenants were among the wounded. Five o f the enlisted men were slightly wounded, but General Barnett’s state ment did not show whether the officers and other men were severely or slightly hurt. Most o f the casualties were in one company, which, General Barnett said, lost a total o f 21 men killed and 140 wounded out o f a personnel o f 260. The dates on which the marines were killed and wounded were not made public, nor was it indicated what part o f the line the “ soldiers o f the se a " are holding, or in what ac tions they have participated. Such information ia withheld for m ilitary reasons. It is known, however, that the ma rines have been holding a front-line trench sector for several weeks, hav ing been moved up to the battle line after doing police duty along the American lines o f communication since they first went to France with the van guard o f General Pershing’s forces last summer. This list was the first Marine Corps casualty list made public, and included all names reported up to A pril 23. It was regarded as probable that some o f the names announced Friday previously had been issued by the War department in the army list made pub lic daily. The Catholic International Press agency announced, a dispatch from Governor Finds Available Candidate Basel says, that Emperor Charles o f An Exchange Telegraph dispatch re A fter Fourth Trial. Austria is making a fresh peace offer, ceived in London from Copenhagen appealing to Italy to consider it in her St. Louis — Xenophon P. W’ ilfley, Saturday reported that a counter-revo own interests. member o f the St. Louis board o f elec lution had broken out in Petrograd. prominent It added that there were persistent ru More than 100 American airmen lo tion commissioners and cated in and around London were in Democrat o f Missouri, Monday was mors in Finland that Grand Duke A l vited to tea at Windsor Castle Monday tendered by Governor Gardner the seat exis had been proclaimed emperor and by King George and Queen Mary, who in the United States senate vacated that Grand Duke Michael was the real expressed appreciation o f the work the by the death o f Senator W. J. Stone, j leader in affairs in Petrograd W ilfley announced he would accept men are doing for civilization. the appointment and le ft for Jefferson Moiscow, Tuesday, A pril 23, (via Herbert Nelson, 13 years old, was City to confer with the governor. Vladivostok).— The council o f commis lodged in the city prison at Oakland, W ilfley is the fourth man to be saries has ordered the disarming o f Cal., charged with having shot and offered the senatorship by the gover German and Ukrainian troops who in killed his father, Peter, when the lat nor. vade Russian territory. This action ter started with him to the police sta W’ ilfley is 47 years old and a lawyer. has been taken in accordance with a tion to place the boy in the custody o f He taught school at Sedalia and other declaration o f the rada, which was the juvenile court. cities in Missouri before being admit confirmed by the Germans, that the Contracts have been let for the man ted to the bar in 1896. He has since military operations in the Ukraine ufacture o f 63,500,000 pairs o f metal practiced law in St. Louis. must not extend beyond the Ukrainian He was appointed election commis border. lic fastened field shoes for the army- overseas, at an average price per pair sioner a year ago by Governor Gardner. In compliance with Germany’s de o f approximately $7.75, and for the This is the only public office he has mand regarding war prisoners, I.eon manufacture o f 2,000,000 pairs o f field ever held, although he was figured! Trotzky, the Bolshevik minister o f prominently in Democratic politics for war and marine, has ordered that pris- w elt shoes at $6.50. several years. He is also active in oners shall be disarmed and held in ac Secretary o f War Newton D. Baker, Methodist church circles in St. Louis. cordance with international convention in an address to financiers, merchants and also that they shall not be allowed and manufacturers at a luncheon given to carry on revolutionary propaganda. in his honor at Baltimore Monday, so WAR NEWS QUESTION IS UP The K iev rada has informed Rou- stirred the representative men o f Bal mania and the central powers that the timore that in 40 minutes, subscrip Secretary Baker Says Present Publicity Ukraine does not recognize Roumania's tions poured in to the extent o f $19,- System Unsatisfactory. annexation o f Bessarabia. 221,600. M. Yaberzen has been appointed am Washington, D. C.— The whole ques A Liberty ' Loan honor flag floats tion o f how the American public shall bassador to Switzerland. over the huts o f 200 Pala Indians far be kept promptly informed as to army up in the mountains o f San Diego activities both abroad and at home is Taft Urges Large Army. county, California. They subscribed under consideration at the W ar depart Cleveland, O. — Ex-President W il $4000 to the Third Liberty Loan from ment. In making this known, Secre their scant savings. They had been tary Baker said frankly that the pres liam H. Taft, speaking as a represent entirely overlooked and no quota for ent system has proved entirely unsat ative o f the lea g u e to Enforce Peace at the annual meeting o f the Federated isfactory. the camp had been allotted. The War secretary would not say Churches here Sunday, called upon Alim ony dodgers w ill be drafted into what plans are under consideration, America to abandon hope o f early the army soon, according to a decision but it is known that the issuing o f I P64“ an<l prepare at once to send an by the exemption appeal board o f Chi some sort o f a daily statement is con army o f 7,000,000 American soldiers cago. A man who has been given a templated. This is regarded as neces to the western front. “ America must stop changing her deferred classification on grounds o f sary now that American soldiers have supporting a fam ily and then is found not only taken over several sectors o f ideas as to the prosecution o f the war to have deserted them and refused to trenches in France as individual units, every six months, declared Mr. T a ft; pay alimony w ill be put in Class l.|it but also have been brigaded with must give up entirely the hope o f sep was decided. French and British forces in Picardy, arating the German people from their where the Germans are still trying to kaiser, and must immediately lay plans Finnish shore batteries in command to overcome Germany by the force o f a drive their offensive forward. o f German officers opened fire on 145 tremendous army. Whilg Mr. Baker was in Europe re Russian ships which le ft Helsingfors “ America must calculate on a large for Kronstadt, the State department cently he issued an order that any w ar,” he said. “ L e t us have a plan news regarding the American expedi was informed Monday in diplomatic to put five or seven millions o f men dispatches. This was held to be a vio tionary forces in France would have to over there.” come from the headquarters o f General lation o f the Brest-Litovsk treaty which stipulated that the vessels Pershing. U. S. Guns Beat Off Huns. should move unmolested. Princess Marie Banished. With the American Arm y in France Paris— The Princess Marie Antoi — The enemy laid down a very heavy German newspapers received at Zu rich say two large powder factories at nette, mother o f Empress Zita, has barrage in front o f the American Glazenbach, near Salzburg, 156 miles been ordered to leave Austria within trenches in the Toul sector at 3 o ’clock southwest o f Vienna, have been de 24 hours and not re-enter that country Monday morning, the bombardment stroyed, according to a dispatch from until the termination o f the war, ac lasting an hour. cording to a dispatch from Geneva. A fte r an interval o f silence, he re Switzerland. Empress Zita has been blamed by the peated the performance, and half an The United States has agreed to pro-German party in her husband’s em hour later the German infantry started permit the shipment o f grain to pire as being responsible for Emperor for the American lines. So intense Switzerland in ships flying the Swiss Charles’ now famous letter to Prince was the American counter attack that colors with the flags under which the Sixtus, o f Bourbon, his brother-in-law, the enemy was repulsed without get vessels is registered. It is probable in which he made overtures for peace ting close enough to be engaged by the that American ships w ill be used. to France. American infantry. New York -G eorge A . Kyle, o f Port land, Or., the American engineer, who, since March 5, has been held captive by Chinese bandits in the province o f Homan, China, has been released, ac cording to advices to the State depart ment from the American legation in Pekin, forwarded to the Siems-Carey Railway & Canal company here. Two other Americans and a Chinese engi neer had been previously freed. The message to K y le ’s employers here gave no details o f how his release was brought about. K yle was chief engineer o f the Siems-Carey company and was making a survey for 2600 miles o f railroad when captured, with E. J. Pursell, an other engineer, and a Chinese assistant engineer. Later H. J. Ix)ve, a V ir ginian, employed by the British-Amer- ican Tobacco company, was seized. A ll were reported liberated except Kyle, who was said to be held as a hostage for the return o f a relative o f one o f the bandit chiefs captured by Repbuli- can troops. Ixindon Winston Spencer Churchill, introducing in the house o f commons Friday the estimates o f the ministry o f munitions, said that during the five weeks since the battle in France not only had the consumption and destruc tion o f munitions o f all kinds proceed ed at the greatest rate, but that there also were very heavy losses by capture by the enemy. “ We lost,” the minister said, “ nearly a thosuand guns by shell fire or capture; between 4000 and 5000 machine guns have been lost or de stroyed, and the quantity o f ammuni tion, apart from thnt which has been fired and that which has been lost in the dumps, amounted to something between one and three weeks’ total o f manufacture. “ But great as the demand has been, the expenditure in the last month did not exceed the maximum potential ca pacity o f the British factories, w ith out touching the enormous reserves, which had accumulated against such a contingency. “ In fact, barring unforeseen circum stances, our supply o f munitions would enable us to carry on a battle at the supreme pitch o f intensity until winter without compromising our requirement for 1919. This despite the fact that a hundred thousand men were taken from the munition factories for service in the armies. “ We are making in a single week more airplanes than we made in the whole o f 1914; in a singe month more than we made in the whole o f 1915; in three months more than wo made in the whole o f 1916. And we are going to make this year several times what we made last year.” For telling a friend that the naval Gompers 111 on Rostrum. ship upon which he was serving was to Montreal— Samuel Gompers, presi sail for Europe soon with troops on dent o f the American Federation o f board, Lieutenant W alter S. Carring ton has been sentenced by court-mar Labor, was stricken suddenly ill while tial to lose five numbers in his grade. addressing a mass meeting o f labor A ir observation shows a clear break representatives here Monday night. o f 20 yards in width in the Zeebrugge Mr. Gompers had said that when de mole at the inner end, and that a mocracy was enthroned no one would sunken object blocks the greater part outdistance him and his associates in o f the channel in the harbor o f Ostend, the labor movement extending the according to an official bulletin issued hand o f fellowship and goodwill to the working people o f Germany. by the English admiralty. Oregon Man ia Murdered. Phoneix, A riz .— Ivan McCann was taken into custody eary Monday morn ing, charged with the murder o f Ken neth C. Folston, o f Oregon, who dis appeared from his lodging house here last November. The body o f Folston was found on Saturday afternoon by cowboys, 25 miles northeast o f the city, and was identified by papers and other property found in the pockets. On the return o f the officials from the mountains, McCann was arrested. PreM Soldier* Greeted. N ew Y ork— Cablegrams were Satur day sent by M. E. Stone, general man ager o f the Associated Press, to all men in the foreign service o f the or ganization/is follows: “ The board o f directors o f the Associated Press in meeting assembled sends you the heart iest personal greetings, and in the name o f 1100 American newspapers its profound thanks for the admirable and patriotic service you are rendering to the Press and to the country.” Missing Germans 664,105. Amsterdam - Speaking before the main committee o f the German reichs- tag on Friday, according to Vorwaerts, General von Risberg stated that on March 31 last, the number o f Germans missing had reached a total o f 664,- 104. O f this number, he said, 236,676 were prisoners in France; 119,000 in England, 157,000 in Russia and Rou- mania, and the remainder could be re garded as dead. DUTCH YIELD TO DEMANDS Germans to Get Supply o f Sand and Gravel From Holland. Ixindon — Holland has yielded to Germany’s demands concerning trans port and the supply o f sand and gravel, although it is understood that the amount o f sand and gravel w ill be lim ited instead o f unlimited, according to a dispatch from The Hague to the Daily Mail, dated Sunday. It is added that a general undetak- ing w ill be required from Germany that the sand and gravel w ill not be used for m ilitary purposes. Rumors are current in the Dutch capital, the dispatch adds, that Dr. John IxHidon, minister o f foreign a f fairs, w ill resign. These, it is said, are based on the supposition that he could not retain office now that his un dertaking respecting the gravel must te* ¿evoked* In summarizing the situation, the dispatch continues, it is fe lt certain that the crisis with Germnay has passed, although the solution is in no wise an ideal one for Holland. Relations between Holland and Ger many have been at almost a breaking point for some days owing to German demands that Holland permit the transmission over her canals and rail roads o f sand and gravel from Ger many to Belgium. The controversy was a three-cornered one, as Great Britain had warned Holland to take steps to make certain that the sand and gravel would not be UBed for m ili tary purposes. BANDITS RELEASE G. A. KYLE Portland Engineer, Captive in China Hince March 5, Given Freedom. ALL GUN LOSSES MADE GOOD England Prepared i f Big Battle Ixists Until Stopped bv Winter.