Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, November 21, 1917, DAILY EDITION, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextI ''""l or Or. -"',(11 y f DAILY HDITION VOI,. VIII., u. l!l. GRANTS PAM, 4MKPHI5K OOl'ItTT, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 91, 1917 WHOLE NUMBER 2314 NDENBURG 1 OirTFKFkTPTXT AGS SMASHES I ft Austria says -retreat can E VENICE IMHt ATIONH POINT TO IMPEND , 1X1 BOMBARDMENT ITALY'H ART CENTER POPE PLEADS WITH AUSTRIANS Irntra Mm I lorn AIiimmI AbaadooeH by Civilian. Italy May No IHw rVml If Hermans Attack Part. Nov. 21. "Martin." (a newspaper! say that tbi Auntrlana have aurred to spare VpuIcp In re auou to an appeal from the Vati can, but say thai all authority In that city murit be. loft In (hit hands of thi Patriarch. Venice will not be defended If lha Italian determine to retire from their preiient lined. Venice. Sunday, Nor. IK. "TUi Italian Kovernment ' must declare whether the Quppo of tho Adrlntlo I or I not a fortified city," In On demand that Austria ha aildrMHd to Italy through the Spanish ambas sador. Thla la IntprprPtPd hpre a deslrp by Austria to JiiKtlfy what ever dettrurtion may be caused by the shetU during ntr-Torthromlnit operation. ( All In In preparation her to meet -any eventuality. Ilnrvey Carroll, Jr., the Amerlfiin consul, the French! consul and (he British vice-counsel have decided lo remain In t hi rltVi MP to thn liiRt moment possible. I Rome. Nov, 2). Kant of the Aula-! xo plateau thp ItallnnK aro keeping i 'lip their offensive agulnst Hip Inva-! Ipra nd have taken more than three! hundred prisoner and a number of machine guns and several hundred. rifle. Along Ihp Plavp rlvpr thn enemy apparently ha mnde no further ef fort to cross the at ream, aftpr thp werlou loe he sustained In being driven hark Monday from the 55nn on hrldRphpad. Berlin. Nov. 21. Tlte situation on the Italian front remains un--changed today. L BE SENT TO CALIFORNIA ' Kim Francisco, Nov. 21 All fears; of a coal fa ml no In Culirornin have' been set at rent by an announcement j In the war service bureau thst 1 .700 j carloads are to be broimht to thlsi city from the I'tah mul Wyoming fields, together with big shipments i from Seattle and Hi Hint) Columbia. The war service board figures that there la enough coal In sight to last the state more than 100 days. MKMIIKR OF KoniHtlllLI) KAMTIjV W KILLF.D 4 lH)ndon. Nov. 21. 'Major Evelyn lo Rntharhlld, a member of the fa mous Kuropenn banking family, has lieen killed In battle while fighting In the British arrrfy egnlnat the Turks In Palestine, II was announc ed today. TF.MTIIOXK WOltKKIlS . MKKT WITH MKDIATtHIS Sun Fran eiaro, Nov. 21. Repre snntntlvea of the California, Oregon atil Washington electrical workers tind I lie vprcslilciit's mediators, met liero today for the first time. SA GERMANS STILL ENSLAVE FRENCH 'Milium of r'lMiiik-m llelng Item"' til ti Wm-k fur (Jcrniaii .MtM. hrn Ittildliig Itrniovpit Rotterdam, Netherlands. Nov, XI. The (iermana continue lo carry off tha civilian population of the town and villages of Klande.ru, aarordlug to the Nlcuw Itotlnrilatn Courant. Itimlpra In entirely evacuated. At leuat 2.DIMI Inhabitant! have left ('our trill and al Oatenil the exodus pontluuea. A lamp nu in tier of rl di'tita of Herluere have been taken to TourioliiK, there lo beset to the I'ouatriu'tlon of military works of defense; and at Sleydltixen all men. without distinction of rank or for tune, have been forced to labor at the laying of road. At Puar, Itornhem and Wlllehroeck, In the providence of Antwerp, the (iermana have requlntioned the" people'a bed ding. AUTO BANDITS MAKE RICH HAUL IN GEMS Mlnneapolla. Nov. HI. Three ad toniobile baodlta atepppd Into a Jewelry re on the principal atrept thla mornlnit. drove three ilerka In to a back room, forced another lo ,opeii aafp,. nl ,iy l . ii Ir l 'with diamond and other Keina val ued, accord I im to II. II. (ireen, the liroprletor, at from ll.'.oon (o $.". non. E :T ClirlHtlunlu. Nov. 21. The news pa pel a expiea iliHMitlafaction with the new Norwegian paaaport regula tion, becaiiae Danes and Hwedea are exempt from lu provision on the ground of reciprocity. This, It la aalil, means the foregoing even of the tight to Innulre whether Swedlah nn (I Dnnlah psaaporta are genuine or falan. so that anyone who speaks theae lanxuuKea can trnvel In Nor way without hindrance. "Since there are plenty of places where fnlae psiut porta are made," says Tldens Tegn, "this regulation makes the whole law useless." ! Ottawa. Out.. Nov. 21. An em- bar go on the shipment of nil Iron nnd steel from Canada, except In caaes In which licenses may be granted by the riihIoiiih department, waa announced by the government Mnmlny. Till action. It was ex tilalned. was due to the shortage occasioned by the heavy manufac ture of munition and shipbuilding. SIXTK.KN Hl rFRAGlSTS ARK ON HrKfiMt STItfKK Washington, Noy. 21. Sixteen of the 31 suffragists sent to the Oreo qiinn workhouse for picketing have been without food since their ar rival last Wednesday., according to a statement Monday night by the national woman's party. . i Ei Tacoma, Nov. 21. Twonty-flve thousand of Vno.le Sam's new sol diers passed in review before (len pibI (Ireene today in the largest military pnennt In the history of the northwest. It took over , two hours for the men to pass a tlwen 'point. l- pluioon formation. mm mm . tSR U MO LW An AMOri mm m HiivHNi.r Without Artillery Preparation asd by Moving Troops at Nigkt, Haig Carries Out Most Spectacular OJeasife Since First Gennaa Ad?ancc5 K!i!es Gained Ixiiidoa, .o. Ul. TixUy vr the UMMt KMcta-itlar offpanivr oa the w enter front alaie trrach warfatv aaa Wlaiirtl. Ilal'a tronpn premeil oa until liy weep at lanrvlaj( and Aunea oa tlir !UMUme am lira! pimmI. When they atofiopil they were only t hhee and oae-half in lien from Cambral, aa lmMrtaBt (ieinun Inixo and railway Junction point whirh la ianatly the flaal objeo live of the attack. Tile attack waa made andor un favorable weather coaUitloaa and It haa lnw irrown more atormy. ieneral Pemhbiir wan at UPtirral HaJK'a hrailqonrtrra mm a sweat and : wltltpwiprt the offenxlvp. The Brit lab 1 tonlicht am holding Uralnronrt and MaintinK, Uinrion, Nov. jl. Thp lllnden burs line haa been broken to a(depth of four or five mllea. The Itrltiah stormed the Aral ya Kteni of the Hindenburg line ot de : fenaea on the whole front liptween jtft. Qtientln and 8ai river, a dia- tamo of 32 mile. The British In- I fun try' a up ported by a battery of' I "tanka" prensed on, taking thp ape . ond a.vatem of defenaea more than a i mile beyond. ' The attack commenced yesterday by the Third army. There was no GHS WOMAN IN JAIL St. lrfiiils, Nov. 21. Catherine I I'rlebst-Coiich. who was reported i shot as a spy In-Germany several ninnCta im, i- e I'nlteil S' lt 4 prl oner jii'la ' In l..r home to.vt, Woht j ttulem. til. ! F i'l. wlnu a tiro-German ,.i ecii Jby,M-i. Coii'b the 'patriot!.' little I town . . i .,1 mi iuMgnalion ui .il'iu land :i l n. -irnt'on folio ve. Mr! iCoiicli :y V" y d in Jail. ALL LAWYERS ARE EXPECTED TO HELP MEN FILL OUT i . Portland, Nov. h. Every man registered for the draft will be sent a questionnaire lu the next two or three weeks that he must fill out and return within seven days to his local exemption board. These questionnaires are long and , the answers to some of the questions i may require considerable study. Rut Hiough I'ncle Sam will Insist that all the questions be answered he Is going to safeguard the rights of , every man by providing him with ! free local assistance and advice In writing out his answers. To this end the government la jawwilb lu iiiv'llinc 1111 1.11c, ninc-io vi ..!..... II...I.IU.B ..II Ih. In AM nf the country for. patriotic service. j The mobilisation will he voluntary 1 but every lawyer will he expected to do his hit and volunteer. State, county and district legal advisory boards are to he formed at onre In Oregon, as In all other states. These legal advisory boards will be held responsible for seeing that a competent force of lawyers, or n.m'- mm u. lav mm II l 0 mm artillery rarallon. The Germana were taken completely by atirprlae. The aerond ayatein of defenaea that waa captured Is known as Hln denburg'a support line. During the operations, the British took Benavla. tameau Wood, Iav acquerle, Welah Ridge and Rlbe court village. The operation Is still being continued. Several thousand prisoners have been taken and the entire German lines west of the canal between Du- nord and the Bapaume-Cambral j road haa been captured. Thla British movement appears to be the moat ambitious Initiated since they have come Into action. Despite a continuation of the atorm the British troops and tanks are atlll pushing forward. The Ger mans are fighting on their last line of defense at one point. Five thousand Germans have been taken prisoners. It was announced tonight. Thus tar. the British cas ualties have been light. , The spectacular feature of the drive was that It came aa a complete surprise to the Teutons. There had been no artillery preparation. The the night and concealed during the day time. The Innovation took and found the enemy completely bewlt- 1 dered. IN A New Yonk. Nov. 21. Eight sticks of dynamite were discovered Mon day night In a manufacturing build ing In Kant 2Sth street. 'A fuse at tached to them had been lighted, I but It was extinguished before it reached the dynamite. The company which occupied the building was manufacturing uni forms for the government. A large number of employees were In the building at the time. NEW WAR QUESINAIRES1? tiled laymen, Is at all times avail able for consultation by aj regis-' trants desiring their services, during the period when the questionnaires ore to be answered. , Not only that, but ihe legal ad- visory board will delegate these du- ties to lawyers in the smaller towns,15 Jr' ln and villages, so that wherever a reg-' latered man may be, he will have available a competent legal advisor to help him make out his question naire. . . So far as the lawyers are con cerned. It will all be a labor of pa-; triotlsm on their part. Not a cent ' will they charge any reitlstrant for! their services. The prompt rilling out and return Premier Lloyd George's posit'on has of questionnaires to local exemption been strengthened mensureably by boards by registrants Is or the great- his defense speech in the house or est Importance. On the . Inrornia- commons. tlon obtained through the question- Even the nntl-Lloyd George news nalres will be based the new system papers freely admitted that tho pre of classification on which selection mler has won a preat personal vie of men for military sen-ice under tory and that his speech was a mns- the 1r:ift l'.cre:ift-r v'!l !- rrr.'Io. (IriiwmeMU I'ImIkpo fiovprnment to I nhxl Kffort In a Hlagle Pun I ' of Ik-atlng llowa Genuif Farla, Nov. 21. In his opening statement as Prance's new premier, read before the chamber of deputies today. Geo. Clemenceau, said: "Neither personal consideration nor political ardor will torn us from our duty, or lead us to go beyond It. Weakness would be complicity. We shall be without weakness, as with out violence. 'All the accused be fore courtmartlaU that Is our pol icy.. The soldier In the pretorlum In solidarity with the soldier la com bat. No more pacifists congresses; no more German Intrigues; neither treason nor semi-treason! War, nothing bat war." BERIIH JUST TELLS OF A SMALL SEA FIGHT Berlin, Nov. 11. A German sub marine destroyed a British monitor and destroyer off the Syrian roast, the admiralty announced. London, Nov. 21. The British admiralty had already announced that a monitor and destroyer had Ien sunk NovernbeV if," ifth a" "foss of 33 men. . - ACROSS CALIF. LINE! Sun Francisco, Nov. 21. The! lopenlng up of Eureka and other coast points to important Inland ; preparpd officially for the rorrespon- polnts In northern and central Cal- dent, .and may be regarded as a feel- Ifornla and Oregon through" roads jer from Germany. and trails In the Isolated Trinity . . . and Klamath National forests Is Washington, Nov. 2l'.-wedUh. now being effected by the national , di8patcheg BUte th,t 0eMnJ forestry service in cooperation with , , ., . , , , . ' , t Kaledlnes, with bis army of Cos- the state highway commission. The! . ., , . . , , ' ... ... : sacks, is marching against Moscow. Salmon river road, which will take! . . .A . . ., . , , . , , A. where 8.000 have been killed in ten years to complete, will be the , . . . ., . , ,, . . ; riots. There Is no confirmation of principal artery, between these'.. . , ' . . 4 , ... the reports, points. The government is contrlb-, TT . , .v . . , I Unofficial dispatches reaching the ut ng 175,000 and S sk yon county, i . . . . V . . . ' . ... , , Tf .state department today from Tor- $10,000 a year for this project. This ' ., . . . ' ... . ' , . , . ..nea. on the Swedish frontier, amy I unu win u i in uit inuiaiQu region. 'A miie roaa is aiso oemg con- . , . t . . , . istmcted down the south fork of the Trinity river in the Trinity nation and i forest which will also open up an',,, he Isolated region to settlement. This j . a -in . .... v i. i the main trunk Mjrhwajr between I r - J rti.. mm.A in.ui.. 1 RANK DEFAVLTER GETS PRETTY STIFF SENTENCE TflpnmA. Kav. 81 -.tfvan iMrflnn. old. defaulter 'bookkeeper of the Bankers' Trust Company who plead- d guilty to a defalcation of $17,000, w" entenc' f m thrM LLOYD GEORGE HAS IE E Ijondnn, Nov. 21. Judging, from London newspaper comment today, terfnl argument. MAY DECLARE RUSSIAMS ARE THROUGH WAR BOLMllbYIlU Mil) TO PLAJf AS NOIWEMEXT THEIR COUN TRY WILL STOP FKaHTIifO COSy.CC LEADER IS Ol General Kalendiara Hold Coal aad Bread BwppUen aad Hot k Mfm. pathy With Radtoaks .. London. (Nov. 21. Dispatches re ceived in neutral countrlea lead col or to the belief that the BolaherlU party la preparing to declare Russia as out of the war. Diplomats her are strongly Inclined to the ballot 'that these reports emlnate from a Teutonic source. Stockholm, Nov. 21. The. Alton Tldnlngen claims to have learned through diplomatic channel that Russia win shortly withdraw frost official participation In the wai4. ' Copenhagen. Nov. ' 21. The Ber lin correspondent of the National TM" that the-Uermaa gov- '.ernment has received Information by Jan Indirect route that the Russian Maximalist government has declared. Russia out of the war. ' He adds a long statement on the military situation, to Indicate that the entente might as well give up all Ihope of defeating Germany and come to terms with the central now- .The whole dispatch gives the" 1m- I preasion or having been carefully passengers arrfrtng there from Rut- laU1atal than Pnaalfltl a.ltnfaHM la -M4M,.a v - , , . i controlled br -Gelieral Kalendlnee, the Coesack eommandeV, who holds ! A similar view Is taken at Stock- holm. A message from there dated yesterday, tells of the belief that Kaledlnes is the man of the hour. . A dispatch from Tornea, dated yesterday, reports the arrival there ot several Americans from Petrograd' In advance of the large party being sent away by Ambassador Francis. Petrograd was said to be quiet with theaters open and trains running. Soldiers were parading the streets of !t he city, bearing banners stating that "Russia does not want separate peace," and demanding constitu tional assembly for all Russia, and declaring that the Nicholas regime was never so tyrannical as that of the Bolshevik!. -v Washington, Nov. 21. No ship ments of supplies will be permitted to go from the United States to Rus sia until the situation In that coun try clears. The American , govern ment, before allowing the export of goods already on the docks, wants to know Into whose hands they will tall on their arrival. If trie Bolshevikl gain control and pursue their program calling for peace with Germany, the embargo will be permanent.