Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, December 27, 1915, DAILY EDITION, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextDAILY EDITION VOI. VI., No. Hi. , CiiA.YTH PAS8, JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1915. WHOLE NUMBER 1628. j : r , Other Town in the World the Size of Grants Pass Has a Paper.With Full Leased Wire Telegraph Service. , . y- ( , 1 15 Secretary lansisg TeBs Dele gates at the Pan-American Scientific Congress That Policy Is Still Efiective ' Washington, Dec 27. Secretary of State Landing's positive dcclara tlon that the Monroe doctrine carries tie same force today that ha gone unchallenged through four decade marked the flrat session of the second Pan-American Sotentifie congress here today. A warm acceptance of the doctrine of Pan-Americanism featured the addrem of Chairman Suarez. : "The Monroe doctrine l the na tional policy of the United States," aid Lansing. "Pan-Americanism Is the International policy of the Amer icas. Motives differ to some extent, but the ends jought are the same. Both policies can exist without Im pairing the force of either. Doth do exist, and, I trust they will ever con tinue In all tholr vigor. . 'Internationalism appeared to be Increasing . all over the civilised world when the present war stayed Ita hand and brought discouragement to those who had hoped the new ldeaa would usher In a new era of universal peace and Justice. Let us hope that It Is the Anal outburst of the cardinal evils of nationalism which lor nearly century spread . Us baneful Influ ence over the world. : Pan Americanism la an expression of In ternationalism. America, bat become the guardian of that Idea, which will In the end rule the world." Nearly 1,000 distinguished persons from both North and South America are attending the session. Washington, Deo. 27.--The Mott Too doctrine America for Ameri cana is as sacred now as when it was first proclaimed, Secretary Lan sing said significantly today before the second Pan-American Scientific congress., -, "The fooling that 21 American re publics constitute a group separate and apart from other nations, with common ideals and aspirations, hns become today a definite conference which draws them together and makes them the American family of nations," he said. Furthermore, he reiterated Presi dent Wilson's declaration that the United States will novor exorcise might to wrest territory from , her neighbors. At the same time, he sug ' gosted that the republics might well take the motto of Dumas' "Three Musketeers" "One for All, All for 'One.",' ;'';; Ho urged co-operation In dofonso against any country coveting the Tlches of the Americas. He pictured the European continent at war, with Its untold misery and torrlblo herl- Ingo of suffering transmitted to pos terity, compated to tho westorn hemisphere at poaee. . . y'., i lUUTISlt INDIAN TROOPS V WILL LEAVE FRANCIS , (By United Press Leased Wire.) ' : London, Dec. 27. Indlnn troops in Trance will be transferred to another : front, It was officially announced to-day. " This announcement was made slm- nltaneously ' with a , message front ' Kins Qeorga of England to the In ,j dlnns, saying: ' ' ' ! ' j "I now require your services In another field of action. Before you i leave France, I am sending the Prince !'Of Wales to thank ybu for your ser vices and to xpresi my satisfaction." . It Is believed that the' Indians are destined ' for "the' Balkans, Mesopo tamia or Egypt, ".-i.'-- - '. YULETIDE TIDE By William Philip Slmras. . With the French Army, Dee. 27. Under an abominable warm drizzle and thawing snow, except In the peaks and high passes, the oddest and most impressive Christmas Alsace has ever knowjti has come and gone, The world has witnessed few more dramatlo Yuletldes. ? . r While soldiers forgot Jesus' birth day In grimly calculating the ranges for their incessant artillery firing, and in "softly swearing over their misses, happy Alsatian families, 1,000 yards In the rear, of the battle line, dreesed Christmas trees, tang old time carols and were happy over their return to France. While enor mous munitions columns, heedless of Christmas, tolled across the Jura -and Vosges mountains, crowds packed the cathedrals at a midnight mass, pray ing for tho new-come Frepch armies. While the great pipe organs trumpet ed "La Deliverance" and "L Noel," the guns , on Hartmannswellerkopt boomed their accompaniment like the roar of a distant surf. Belasco never staged anything like It. On Christmas eve I watched the bombardment north of Altklrch. Through the rangeflnder its houses seemed to bo only across the street The bouse square was distinctly vis ible. It waa deserted except for the passage of a few vehicles, or for a few German soldiers scurrying to cover. Only at points were the Ger mans visible ; , . :. "That last shot waa beautiful, mag nificent bull's eye to a hair," said an officer, , telephoning from distant 'batteries. While ,:' guns continued to . hurl their Christmas gifts of high explo sives toward the. Germans, some qnoted "peace on earth, good will to men" to a young graduate of St. Cyr, in the month when the war began, but now & veteran captain in the Legion of Honor, "You think man killing and Christmas are anachronisms?" he smiled., '. ' ''" ' "Well, Americans thought perhaps an unofficial truce would be obs erved," I suggested. : "The French army is fighting to uphold Christmas," he Bald, "for all that Kris Krlngle represents for the right to live without the mailed fist forever poised over our heads, for the principle of goodwill between neigh bors and , the right, to enjoy Santa Clous in our homes without danger." Dtroit. Dec. 27. Neither .Mrs. Ford nor officials of the Ford auto works had any Information today con cerning a rumor that Henry Ford Is dead, en route to the United States. CONFIRM -REPORT T WARNIN (By United Press Leased Wire.) Washington,-' Deo. 27. American Consul Briutow, at Port Said, cabled the state department today a con firmation of !tho reported torpedoing of the Japanese liner, Yasaka Maru without warning. Ho Bald that the periscope was soon .afterward, but that the nationality of tho submarine was not known. , The department Is awaiting knowle-dKo of this point be fore framing any protest against jeo pardizing the lite of the single Amer ican passenger a'boord. Until a cruiser picked up the sur vivors of the Yasaka Maru, the at tacking submarine, said tho report, followed them, apparently to see that no harm Well the passengers. The fact that the nationality of the submarine supposedly Austrian or German Is unknown, makes fur ther .Investigation necessary before any protest can be made by this gov ernment. . -" : IKING SHIP Willi G EUD -1 Recrgamzaticn cf 03cial Bcdy Demanded by Eng lish and Prompt Action in War Matters Is Skgtt . "1. (By United Press Leased Wire.) London, Dee. 27. Using aj their slogan Lloyd-George's "too late," In fluential newspapers today demanded a reorganization of the British cab inet. Lloyd-George would be the prob able head of the government If As quith were forced out. ' Prompt, decisive action in the mat ter of forcing conscription, however, can save Asqulth, bis colleagues and the press hinted. Despite optimistic reports, it is hinted Lord Derby's re cruiting campaign was not a success and the fact that results thereof were withheld apparently confirms this view. Conscription . advocates de manded that there be no farther side-stepping of the Issue. They held that the. Issue onght not to be sub mitted to a general election.. On tho contrary, antl-conscriptlonists point ed to laborltes threats of the danger of conscription and their Announce ment to fight such a move to the finish.- " ' ..'' Unless the issue is met at tonight's cabinet session, ,lt Is expected the fight on Asqulth will !be renewed, and the Dardanelles and Balkan failures particularly dwelt upon. The whole cation' was stirred by the speech of Lloyd-George Christ mas, before a mass meeting of union men at Glasgow. In this he told them frankly that union rules must be re laxed if England Is to succeed. Two- courses, otherwise, are open, he de clared. The first Is to go to the men in the trenches and inform them that "perhaps in 1917 American workmen will have furnished you enough muni tions"; the other, Is to go to the kaiser and tell him "we can not go on." Such a course, he eald, would lay the nation open to a large in demnity and would mean the annexa tion of Belgium and one or more British colonies by Germany.' , San-' Francisco, Dec. 27. Fearful1 lest the assassination here, of Wong Yuen Young, cousin of the Chinese emperor, lead to a war between rival gunmen in local Chinatown, police today trailed every possible clue to his' slayer.' ,' - , In dark alleys, where tongmen gather, they interviewed sleepy-eyed Celestials, always meeting the same answer a shrug of the shoulders and a grunt indicating lack of com prehension. They sought, too, to wring from loaders of the monarch ist and republican groups some in formation that would loud to arrests. What little they could glean from persons unfriendly to the murdered Chinese tended, to confirm the view that he was slain by monarchist sympathizers because he deserted Yuan Shi Kai'a cause recently. Young was shot down from ambush as he rose from dinner la the exclusive Shanghai Low restaurant Saturday evening.1 v , V : Editor Wong, of the Young China newspaper, revealed that Young had written him a confidential letter, say ing he had broken with the emperor .1 KILLING OF- CHINES COUSIN IS CAUSE join FORD PARTY Word Froa Ccpesiagea Ao- Ecssces That Fcrcer Sec retary cf State Will Become MezWcfPeace Expedition (By United Press Leased Wire.) Copenhagen, Dec. 27. Former Secretary of State Bryan today cabled the Ford peace expedition that he will join them here, according to advices local peace organizations re ceived. Meantime, Governor Hanna of North Dakota, who quit the peace ex pedition in a "huff." is in St Joseph's hospital here, . suffering , with In fluenza. ; v ''';:(. , ..:. W-;. Local peace advocates said' that re ports that the Ford party would make its headquarters here, instead of go ing to The Hague, were unfounded. In fact, they claimed that negotia tion are now under way for a ship to, take the expedition there. The newspapers print amusing reports of quarrels of the peace party, one stat ing that the leaders drew revolvers. These stories are given in all serious nesa as true. The latest batch of yarns followed a story that a news paperman had pushed his way Into Ford's peace cabinet en route to make "him give up news. ' , . : it'. Stockholm, Dec. 27. The Ford pace expedition sought today to coax back into the dovecote the dove of peace that escaped while the party was en route to Europe. ' The new management is trying to prevent further secessions -from the ranks and at the same time stir a new spirit of harmony. Rev. Jenkln Lloyd Jones believes there Is still a chance for partial auccess if the har mony ensues. At a meeting last night leaders discussed Ford's plan to enlist 300 socialists who will support the mis sion staunchly, v ' The SwedlBh press said the peace mission might have succeeded if it had been managed properly. . . The latest secession from the ranks was that of Mrs. Inez Mulhol land Boessevaln, who attacked the autocratlo control of the expedition. E EMPEROR'S OF POLICE W because he disagreed with hie mon archist ambitions. This letter follow ed circulation of Chinese newspaper reports that Young was an agent of the emperor here on a secret mis sion. .", Other Chinese held that .Young was a powerful figure in his own land and that If ho took an active part against the emperor It would certain ly be to the advantage of monarch ist agents to have him out of the way. Meantime, affairs In China to which. Young's murder Is traced are wav ering on the brink of revolution, ad vices indicate. Assistant Editor Chang, of the Young China news paper,; reported receipt of cable grams telling of three provinces, sup posed Yuan's bulwark of strength, wavering.''. v: ..' "If thy turn against him, Yuan's dream of being emperor will be blasted,"; said Chang. Other cables said that Kwangsl, Yunnan and Szechuen provinces are in revolt against , Yuan. To , the Young China nwwspaper came a cable saying that the present and former governor of Yunnan province had i ioSy Hi LJJ D DECREE Portland, Dec.' 27 Federal Judge Wolverton today granted a stay of execution of the decree in the Oregon & California land grant case until February 7. The - Southern Pacific railroad, to which the decree gives an equity of f 2.50 an acre in more than two million acres of land in Ore gon, asked for a delay of sixty days. United States ; District Attorney Rt-ames objected, declaring the im mediate execution of the decree is ne cessary so that congress may have a basis on which to proceed with legis lation for the disposal of the grant lands. The railroad company prob ably will take the case to the circuit court of appeals at San Francisco. SLAVS SILEXCE GERMAN BATTERIES AT RIGA (By United Press Leased Wire) ' Petrograd, Dec. 27. Russian sol diers defeated several thousand re bellious Persian gendarmes, led by Turkish and German officers, midway between Teheran and Hamadan, the war office said today. ; .) "In tho Riga region we silenced German batteries," the statement added. "South of Ikskul Germans used asphyxiating gas bombs. On the Dvinsk front they were repulsed.". DEMOCRATS nOTftf to follow mm TAX SUGGESTIOtl (By United Press Leased Wire.) Washington, Dec. 27. House democrats have decided to fling aside President Wilson's suggestions. f.or taxing Internal combustion engines, now an institution on farms through out the country. V Cpngress Ibegan to hear from "the country" just aa soon as the presi dent's message waa printed. Every farmer who owned a gasoline engine to operate his fodder cutter, his separator, hia churn or pump was up in arms. The response to the presi dent's suggestion was eo instantane ous and so vigorously negative, par ticularly from farms, in addition to the expected howl from the automo billstB, that administration congress men decided It waa political expedi ency to drop the proposed plan at once. ," ''' ; Congressional leaders, with an eye on the farmers' votes next year, as well as the votes of , automoblllsts, decided IJ would be bettor to shelve the engine tax. Another factor in this decision, it is' understood, is the widespread ; Jise of automobiles as farm vehicles. . Tthe proposed tax on gasoline Is still an Issue. Certain members pro fess to see In the recent rise in gaso line prices an effort by the Standard Oil company to create a sentiment against this plan of ratslng revenue. The gasoline user, now paying from 15 to 24 cents a gallon, according to locally, would ralso a terrlfflo roar if the government proposed to add two or more cents on each gallon as a tax.' An Increasing (tontiment for a heavy inheritance tax Is apparent among members. There is also con siderable .opposition' to the bank check tax, suggested by the president. notified the governors . of Klatigs, Chew Chow and KwangBl provinces that Yuan had failed to heed their re quest for abdication, and that thoy had slnoe urged these three provinces to revolt against him. In the three are vast numbers of troops. The same dispatch declared LI Yuan Hung, vice-president of the republic under Yuan Sht Kal, had been made a prisoner when he rejected Yuan's ouer or tne ime prince to support the monarohy. .,, s , MM SOLDIERS 11 TBIIES Spirit cf 7sr AEovs coCc ff.nVa-.,- S By Carl W. Ackerman, Lille, France, via Berlin, Dec. 27. English mines blew the tiny Christ mas trees from the German trenches Saturday and sent the Germans run-. ning belter skelter. There was no Christmas truce, at least not on this front ' On Christmas eve 3.000 soldiers heard a peace eermon in the cathe dral at SL Maurice.' , "Let us pray God that He will carry our peace prayers to the ene my," said the minister, and ceaseless artillery firing between Ypres and LaBasBee re-echoed bis words. ' Throughout the night there was heavy artillery firing, despite a rain storm. Lille awoke Christinas morn ing to find the town flooded, while other villages near the front seemed to be floating.'.'. - But despite . the, downpour, Lille's -250,000 Inhabitants and thousands of soldiers 'managed to celebrate the holiday merrily. Lighted and decor ated Christmas trees peeped from the windows of homes, and larger ones were seen In the station and restaur ants. Many soldiers carried trees to the trenches, to the astonishment of officers and probably the enemy. The German front on Christmas offered a refutation of the world wide accusation that "the English are letting the French do all the fighting." : .Oa Thanksgiving I walked for two hours along the front line trenches in the Argonne, some times 15 feet from the French works. Only three rifle shots and occasional artillery firing were heard. But on Christmas' even the rain did not stop the British artillery. Every clear day, they said, English aeroplanes hover over Lille. The suburbs are Within reach of the English !guns, which bombarded oc casionally. V. ;.. As soon as the bombardment ceases children play in the efreefs. ; V ' , On Christmas eve here it was like Christmas with one great family. The correspondents sat with 1,000 Gettingen landstrum men, every one of whom was married. Some one figured that they have 6,100 children. They unpacked cigars and cigarettes, knives, flashlights, fruits, nutcakes, sausages and bacon and other pres- ents from home, and were joyous. The captain, addressing them, said: "A year ago I predicted we would spend another Christmas in the field. Now I wish to repeat this prediction for the coming year. Germany is fighting four leading powers;: some say ehe will fight a fifth." ! The latter was obviously Intended to mean tho United States, : , While the captain spoke the sol diers' , eyes were dimmed with tears. The officer escorting our party re plied briefly, and was .heartily ap plauded when he hoped for peace be fore another Christmas. . , On Christmas afternoon the $500, 000 theater started by the French and completed by the Germans was formally opened by the crown prince of Bavaria. Sixteen hundred soldiers attended. : ITALIAN TUOOrS UF.ACH ;. THE GRECIAN FRONTIER (By United Press Leased Wire.) ' London, Deal 27. Italian troops who landftd at Avalona have crossed the Albanian mountains and reached the Grftk fatntla 4n anufh banla, according to an Athena report today. !