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DAILY HDITION
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GRANTS PAM, 4MKPHI5K OOl'ItTT, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 91, 1917
WHOLE NUMBER 2314
NDENBURG
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AGS SMASHES I
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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.
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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. .
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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.