Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, February 17, 1918, DAILY EDITION, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextDAILY EDITION VOL, till.. No. 101. i QHAim PAM. JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON, KIXDAY, r'riRIUAIiY 17, WHOLE MMBElt &M4. POSITIONS HELD BY AMERICANS BOMBARDED (jU RIIKMJ THROWN ON AMKIl" ICAN POSITIONS Foil TWO HOIIIH ItY (JKIIMAN ENEMY AIRPLANES DRIVEH.OFf Kasar. of (" Iteniala! Irvrr Tranrfcea for Tbme Hwra, Hut Hun Were No Caaualtlee P1i, Feb. H. American uoel Uuna east of St. Mlhlet have been thiuaberdad by km nlwlln fur 10 houra without lucceaa. !riin alrplaaee In Urge numbers hsve twn driven 'off by the Amerlesn ma chine and aircraft batteries. ' !ss futnes remained over ihe nenrhes for three hours, but there were no casualties. American gunner homhnrded lha German rear llnaa and rommunlca tlona with Rood effect. Friday, which waa tha day whan tha Oarmana advartlaad thay would attack, paaaad qulally wllb British sad French armies. Wltb lha American Army In France. Feb. II. Visibility waa food today In Iba clear, cold atmna pbara and aa a result Ibara waa much aarlal activity on both side. Gorman alrplanea In large nuiubara raiiaatadly attempted to irons tha American llnaa, but war driven off aithar by. anti-aircraft batteries, or by tha air aquadroni. Tha American artillerymen rapid ly ara attaining a blKb degree of effi ciency. Today thay continually fired ahalla that exploded ao close to lha enemy airplane that Ilia avlalnra ware compelled to dodge and duck and aeurrled back to a aafer area, pursued across the iky by a trail of ahrapnal puffs. Tha artillery on both aldea return ed activity today. The American lunnera shelled the German rear llnei and communication effec tively. UST OF CASUALTIES Wahlngton. Kab. 16. General Pershing announce four American Infantryman killed In action, one slightly wounded and two missing. Two were killed February K, one on tba th and one on tha 14th. None of them from the Pacific coaat. New York, Kab. II. An appeal direct to the president haa been mada by the United Brotherhood of Carpenter and Joiners to Intervene In shipyard worker strike. Strike leaders claim 7.000 or 8.000 on ' strike, threatening to tie up the whole work on the Atlantic count, Washington, Feb.- 10. Shipping board officials say there . are less than 1,100 men striking, The wage adjustment board Is agreed on un Increase of wages nnd overtime pay for Delaware shipyard workers. This may affect the New York atrlke. The new scale Is lower than the Pacific coast. New York, Feb. 16. The United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners ha' appealed direct to the president to give the striking ship workers an opportunity to place v their grievance before him. NO HERS III SOOTH PACIFIC Ample Winning Will H UUoa to HIiIhi If Another Raider KhotJd l-Uilev lha Pacific Ocean A Pacific Port, Kab. If. The outh Pacific ocean haa been awapt clean of (iarman raldera, according the announcamant mada bare today by tha commander of a Hrltlih aux iliary cruiser, which entered ort today after a long term of patrol duty along lha went coast of South America. "I am punitive that tha greedier waa lha last German raider In tha PaMflc," aald lha captain. "Ample warning will ha given to shipping1 If there la any possibility of another raider entering tba Pacific. The vir ion! rumor of German raldera gen erally eo me from pro-Oermaa eour cea aod are aent out. In tha bopa of retarding tha movement of allied hipping." SUGGESTS FUNS FOR I'iMi'J! fffl Ixmdon. Kab. I. Ixrd Robert Cecil, minister of blockade, who aa uounced In the common recently that ha himself bad prepared a plan for a league of nations dlacuaaed tha whole problem today. While declin ing to give a deluded outline of hie plan, which, wltb other now la en gaging tba attention or tha Britlih government, ha Indicated a Bomber of conclualopt to which ,tha atudy of tha problem bad led him. . "Tha tret . aad most Important mailer to be Insured by any ade-t quale league of nations," aald Lord Robert, "la that no nation shall go to war until tha matter In dispute has been referred' to International consideration'. If at first the league gets no farther than this, II will be worth while and tha . beginning would be made from which wider development. ar possible within due time." A second point he emphasised wk that, while for an Ideal league, rt would be necessary to have alt the, nations of the wortrt'.Aas members, It may he found necessary to begin with a more .'restricted membership." In reply to a question, he said that even the members of the pres ent entente group, with a few ad dition, would form an adequate nu cleus, although he hoped for a much wider membership. . lierlln, Feb. 16. The admiralty today made the following state ment: ''On the ulgtit of February 14 our torpedo boats under command of Captain Selnecke made a surprise at tack on strong fortes guarding the English channel between Calais and Dover, on the north and Cape Qrls Nes and Folkestone on the south. A large guard shipnumerous arm ed fishing steamers and several moV tor veaaels were forced to give bat tle, the largest part of them being destroyed: ,"Our torpedo boats suffered no losa or damage. All returned." ARE WASHED ASHORE Ixindon, Feb, 16.'A dispatch from Gothenburg la responsible for the belief that a naval engagement has .occurred. It says n large num ber of bodies of (Jerman jailors, who apparently belonged to a warship, have been recovered on the. Swedish oast near Skaggerack, . HUNS SINK DRIFTERS BUT REPORT VICTORY BOLSHEVIKI OF PEACE T MEMIIMW OF ALL-KtSSIAIf KX. KCtTIVK COMMITTEE MJF. II HIT TMrTZKYS TERMS KAISER SUMMONS NAVAL HEADS rommitteeatea (lain Geraaaa aad AuMrtaaa Will Sai Permit aa Of (raalre Agalaat RoaeU Litmloa, Fei. IS, There a mcJUaneat la Warsaw, what IMHtpto ara dmnoaatraUag Ih central powers. AmwtenUm, Feb. Id. Kecxwia fnHH Haunta stole that densobOlaa. Una haa ant hmrea ot Rawafaa Imopa In tha Cauraaraa. However, III ere Is demnliUlxlaa; and Una of a portioa of ArmeaU. Washington, Feb. It Officials here think Trotsky has placed Ger many In a military diplomatic pre dicament and that she cannot nimra troops from tba Russian front, until nerun Decides oa a policy toward the Rolshevlkl. Germany may be forced to defend the Vkranlaae. if the Rolshevlkl attack them. " Amsterdam, " Feb. i l.l-Tbe Atl 'Russlan central executive commit tee1 of workmen aad soldiers' council haa approved, the action of Ruaalan representatives at Brest-Mtovsk. Members of tba committee aald the maasea or Germany and Austria would not permit further offensive against Russia ty their governments. The emperor baa summoned heads of the German nary to headquar ters for eopference. The chancellor will shortly an nounce to the relchstag a future submarine policy. ' ; ' . Berlin. Feb. 16. -Commissioners representing the central powers left Petrograd yesterday and crossed the German lines today. j . (Continued oa page I.) HOT, (ISOPOTALl II RECQMST Kut, Mesopotamia, December SI (Correspondence of the Asaoclat- ed Preaa) This city, the scene of the British Meaopotamlan army's greatest reverse, after lying for many months a city ot tha dead, abandoned by even Ita native popu lation, baa gradually been rebuilt In the past six months, and Is now a thriving town of nearly aa great pop ulation as In days of peace. It was loo Important a center to be neglected. It was a link between the Euphrates and Persia, and ac cordingly, after it had been deeert ed for more than two montha, a British officer arrived here to take charge of the work of reconstructing It. The first thing tdo waa to clean the' place. The debris was dumped out of tha houses into the streets; the accumulated filth was burled or burned, the barricades were pulled down, the dugouts and, trenches were filled up. An Imposing colonnade bazaar was built, along the river bank. A beginning was made with n coffee room and some retail shops for the builders, who for a long time were the 'sole population. Skilled masons, natives who had been employed by the Germans in connection with the Bagdad railway, were collected and set to work. They rebuilt and re roofed the old basaars, widened the Old atreets.and built new ones, re paired the mosques, the baths and the Ice factory, put new engines In APPK LlEfi SEA HEROES DIE TO SAVE SHIP MATES WHKX I .IKK IIOAT8 AKK H IX CAPTAIN AMI MSK MK. KK THK TO KNTKIl THKM TwenCr-eeten Are Haved and Tell of Narriaee of Tboee tmat. Who Ke faaed to Hwamp lloata New York. Feb. II. Tradition of the aea were upheld heroically by Captain E. William and nine mem ber of the crew ot the British steam ship Miguel de Urrinaga, who vol unteered to' perish that othera might live,' when the vessel foundered In mid-ocean on February I. according to survivors, who arrived here todsy from a New Poundlsnd port. Rather than overcrowd lha life. boata . containing 27 men. Captain Williams announced his nurnosft to stick to his ship which waa fast sinking. He called , for nine volun teers to remain with him and make the boata safe for the othera.' Two of hit officer, a gunner and It seamen lined op beside htm and declared tbev were willlnr to take a chance of being rescued before the aip sans. A British warshlo slanted the ves sel aid boats .were, launched, but tbe fnry of a hucricaae made It lmnos- athle to take .aff the. ten 'men "who for. 10 heuca had eking to the half- submerged ship, knocked about and pounded by. heavy.. eeae. At Interval .during the night, the 10 men aent no. rockets to hearten the rescuers, but tha signals ceased after 3 a. m. At daybreak ' . only hatchea of wreckage ' marked the spot where they had gone down. ' IS .KCN8IA -AIJ.Y. AW KXKMT, OR NKITKA1.? . Indon, .Feb.. 1 6. -"It Is Impos sible to say whether Russia Is an ally, a neutral or an enemy," Lord Cecil, minister of blockade, declared In the house of commons Thursday. REDEEUED 8Y to the flour mill, and converted the flata and shoals in the middle of tbe Tigris Into vegetable gardens. Though stilt partly In ruins, Kut today ia a cleaner and better town than ever before In its history. Most of the people are back again 'behind their old doors. The basaars are thronged. And the people are more prosperous than ever, for there la abundant labor for everybody In the neighborhood. Some, of the prominent people of the town will never come back. Eight of them. In cluding the Sheikh and his sons, were hanged by the Turks, and 0 othera were shot, The house which General Towns hend occupied during the siege has. been repaired, but the roof and bal cony are atlll pitted with shrapnel. Seven shelt. holes have been filled with plaster. The memory of the General and of his principal officers survives In the names of the new streets. There ia Townshend Rosd. Delamaln Road, MeHss Road, and the names of brave regiments are recorded In Dorset Road, Norfolk Street, and Mahratta Row. Every association in the nomenclature of the Kut la reminiscent ot the mem ory of Its former defenders. ' Especially ! the " cemetery. The long drawn agony of the garrison which fought and endured here so staunchly to the edge of starvation makes one of the most traglo stories in British military history. Nearly (Continued on page I.) VESSa FOUXIJERSJN iMIEHlCEAN RUCTION OETODS GERLlAfJ IIAVY SHELLS DOVER A Krw (eaaltlee lleportau. Includ ing One Child and a Woanaa aad Three Children lajured London, Feb. 16. The German navy baa msde another minor dam. d)iairation along tha English coast, by sending submarines to bombard Dover, under . cover ; of darkness. Shore bstterles drove them off after three or four, minutes shelling. Thirty roonds were fired but did but little material damage. Some casu- altlea resulted. Including one child Killed and a woman and three chil dren Injured. . CHIKP5 OF BRITISH ST A FT HAS KK8IOXKD III REPORT London. Feb. 1 6. Genera.! air William Robertson, chief of the British imperial etaff, baa resigned smrSe I ustbi to mm Baltimore. Feb. II. When John H. Ferguson, president of the' Bal timore Federation of Labor, who had been to Washington ' todar to confer with 'government official; re turned tonight and attempted to ad dress a meeting of tbe atrlking shlp yarda workers, they refused to listen and forcibly ejected him. Mr. Fergu son, although having no direct con nection with the ship, earoeatera' and Jolaera' union, aald tonight the atrika sraald e- aXerminrd hy Moa- dar.rin s opinion, and that , the men would yield to government ap peals: n waa apparent tonight that leader of other labor unions are trying to placate the. radical element among tha atrlkera and Induce them to return to work and trust tha gov ernment, to do the fair thing; by them. . OVER 200 -19 ARE UNACCOUNTED FOR Washington, Feb. 16. Ten names appearing on a list of .81 Identified dead, waa announced last night, ap parently bringing Tuscanla Ameri can soldiers death roll to 174. The war department's report of surviv ors Is still incomplete. Over 200 men remain unaccounted for. ":' "CITI.KXH OF HKAYEX" AHKKSTKD AS K.NKMIKS Rerkeley, Cal. Feb. 16. Four members of the Church of the Liv ing God were arrested by the police today for failing to register as ene my aliens. They declared they were citlzena of heaven and enemies of no land and therefore would not register as enemy aliens. The four were natives of Germany. CARKAN'ZA SOLDIERS NOT PAID SO - WILL REVOLT El Paso, Tea., Feb. 16. Carrania soldiers In the states of Chihuahua and Sonora are reported In revolt because they are not receiving their pay regularly. A revolt among the Yaqul Indians, who are said to object to fighting their own people, la also reported. According to ap parently authentic reports. Villa has S.000 armed men In his command. GENERAL KALED1NES DROPPED FROM SIGHT Washington, Feb. 16". The Amer ican consul at Tlflls reports that General Kaledlnes, the Cossack leader In Ukrane, who resisted the Bolshevik), has suddenly dropped from sight and Is'sald to be dead. but fiat the report is unconfirmed. CONSIDEIIG nOVEU OF RAILROADS PROHWKD EXPEAUixtltM A .ID IMI'lUntMKVTH W HOAD0 WILL BR KJAMIXKD Ml BUILD fflTIOlTRffi WIU laah oa Jfew Shops, onatm aad Repair 8utioM Waahlngton, Feb. lS.Pr . expenditure of rallroada tor e- u..one ana ImprovemenU thl year weruiiy ecrutinlaed by tech nlcal and financial , w iUQ railroad admlnUir.,i. . . mora oaing Approved, according to a plan an- nounraH n. v.. ... McAdoo. T' One of the first step, toward par log down Individual railroada' est! nates, and re-arranglnf the program lor capital axnaarfitnr . ... me ap pointment of a Mn.i . .. - v-,ain ui railway nglneere to . lnrelgM, eaatera WJAWIII. - Ola.ll.. . in iair to Inspect the budgets of Use. I, tj,. WMft an a...iL ' w-aaaaaar CllOn maw K ..a,.. . Moat rallroada now have complied' lth the railroad edmlnlstrattoa ' request to submit their eaUmataa of expenditure, la . 1 HI., , Thee. . .analysed , loteretato - Com- niaatVaaw a. J. i . muiuaioner Daiiieia aad Joha Skeltoa WHIUma. director of finance for the railroad edmlnlstra-' tlon. Although no official' statement baa been made. It u ...a . many road preaeated eaormoua ea- tlma . ,r luiprovementa, - which, Ihey aald they would have made If private maaaaement h. k . vww Cvl ttnued. In soma him to have Dronnaari ln.i..i... . - - -niuvicut 'exiea, aloe of facllitiea. particularly In tor mlnala nA k. iuinnuuni manage meat probably will insist on building of niaav aiMltlnnoi 4 -l- . . ,u aras, construction of new shops, round houses and repair stations not plan ned by the private managements. CARL ELRCHJiER, ALIEV, IMPLICATED IX PLOT San Francisco. Feb. r. 11 schner.'a chemist, has been arrested aa an enemy alien. chiriH .-ik ing Implicated In an alleged plot to- oiow up a Brush cable station on a nawanan island. MIT TO GET IN AMI SCHOOL Chicago. Fob. 16. John J. Funk haa filed a petition in the federal court for a writ of mandamus ta compel the chairman of the local ex emption board of Oak Park to issue him an exemption certificate so he can enter an army aviation training school. Although marled, he waiv ed exemption and deferred classifica tion on his questionnaire and waa ordered to report to the flying school on January 8. He waa unable to go because the board refused to release him from the list. . The case Is believed to be the first of ita kind. FIRST AMERICA AIRPLAXK . . . FLIGHT IX HAWAII Honolulu, T. H., Jan. 23. (By mall) "Piloted by Major Harold M. Clark, U. 8. A. chief ot the sixth aro squadron, the first modern sea plane of the army that has been as signed to servl.e in Hawaii made Ita In'ljal flight yesterday. The ma chine rose to a 'height of more than 6.000 feet. Major Clark described flying conditions here as Ideal.