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PRESSURE IS
CONTINUED ON
WESTERN INI
GMIMANH NTItlGGI.IMi TO .
t'HKAHK TWO MILK il 0 sM
MII.K HlOT
lrillli ll.ilil rt Ml Important
I'iduU ami (hiiiimm (iulna Art
Mmlii ni Nnrrlilre
By Associated Pre
Having pushed bark tlitt ' British
on a front or 25 miles north and
uutb or Arnientlen-e to n averagr
dnpih of over two mllee, the Ger
mans are struggling to Itu reasr their
mini. ' - .
General Kir Ihiuglaa HuU's lirll
iUnt defense bit slowed up the ene
my, ftlthouili the German attacka ere
null Intense, Mesnlnea Itldge unit
Wyschaeta are vital points which the
Germane have tern unable to reach.
American marines have landed at
Vladlvoatok and tha Russians are
expartnd lo le reaaeured at tha In
ternational aspect of tha situation
there. ,
tandon. Apr. It. Attacking yea
terday In tha neighborhood of I'loeg
ateert, tha Germans pressed back
tha British in tha vicinity or Neuve
Kgllse.
laat night tha Germans raptured
Marvllla. ( Heavy fighting a rontln.
ulng Id tha neighborhood of Mar
villa and Naur Berquln.
On tha remainder of tha nurtbarn
front there Is little rhanga. North
of Featubarl tha British regained
ground by counter-attack and ra
pnlaad German altacka batwaan
Lolana and tha River I-aa.
PHILIPPiME GOV. IS
SUED FOR DIVORCE
8aa Dlago, Apr. 12. Divorce pro
reedlnga against Francis Barton
Harrison, governor of tha I'blllp
plna Islands, wara Inatltntad hera to
day by hit wire. Tha charges ara
secret.
10 ill KAISER
Lloyd Harvey of Olendala wrltaa
his rather, 0. P. Herrey of this city:
"Otandale oversubscribed tha third
Liberty loan allotment ao far that
we have lost sight of tha original
quota In the dust.' I think we ' ara
about 60 per cent over and atlU go
ing strong. We are to have a apeak
er here tomorrow night to talk on
the war and boost for the bonds. Wa
will be glad to hear him balk but ean
give him the laugh so 'far aa boost-'
Ing for bonds."
Medford. Apr. 12. Medford Is
being considered aa a alte for an avi
ation ramp. A telegram was re
ceived by the Commercial Club yes
,torday from U.' 8. Senator Chas. 1
McNary asking lor all necessarj
rinta as to this city's advantages, for
such a alte. .A commltee wns ap
pointed to collect the data and for
ward It to Washington at once.
Hermlston, In eastern Oregon, Is
the other location under considera
tion for a training field.
MESSIHES, WKTSCHAETE HOLD
HEOF0R0 MAY GET : .
' AVIATION CAKP
AGREEMENT III
KflfESli
I'lintr-nlhin I'liiil Object lima Iiiimh
sllile Jo ttrrroiii Jolm IMIIoit
t rroleala
London, Apr. II. Hlr llorart
I'lunkrtt, rhalrinan or tha conven
tion, eaye tha Irish convention has
laid the foundation for an agree
ment on tha Irish question which la
unprecedented In history. They
found It liniMMlble to overcome the
dtijertlone of I'lster and tha t'nlted
States so a majority of tha other fac
tions agreed upon the erhrma.
London, April I J.- John Dillon,
nationalist leader, said In the house
of commons that ha understood that
motor cara. machine guna and tanks
had already been shipped from the
battle front to Ireland, and pleaded
against "gullllllune methods."
LOSS OF ARMENTIERES
iOF
T
''Itoar old ArmentUtree baa fal
len!' Many and many a time hava
I taken tea In that beautliul place,"
said Lieutenant Hector MacQuarrle
last evening when ha heard tha nawa
that tha Urltlah had evacuated that
famous city. '"
Lieutenant MacQuarrla elated that
Armvntlerea was a elty of from
100,000 to 160,000 population and a
Kerr beautiful' place. WJille It haa
been under heavy gun fire tha past
few weeka, a Urge part of the pop
ulation had remained In tha city un
til qnlte recently.'
. The military value of tha place la
of little consequence, said Lieuten
ant MacQuarrle, and there waa no
strategic loss In retiring rrora It. The
Germans had driven In on aallanU
on each aide or It, leaving the city
on a dangeroua peak In the Urltlah
line, and to have attempted to hold
It longer would hava endangered a
considerable portion or the Urltlah
line.
Ueutenant MacQuarrle had fought
over tha country alt around this
place, Yprei and sooth of Armen
tleres and knowa tha country well.
Ha haa no doubts about the final
outcome of the battle.
0!l CABLE STATION
, WashlngtonV ,Apr. 12. A large
German submarine bombed the wire
less and cable station at Monrovia,
Liberia, April 10.
OF ENGLI
ARTISANS ARE HIGH
.Sheffield, England, Mar. 18. The
collection or Income tax from wage
earnera Is causing many heart-burn-Inaa
Jn tha nroaneroua Industrial dis
trict ' around Sheffield.' Investigates'
of the Income tax ran there haye
shown manv ' Incomes almost fabu
lous when compared with peace-time
. After all allowances are made for
children,' Insurnnce, expenditure for
tools, and . other deductions, It ; Is
found Hint fndlvldual workmen here
will pay fax on Incomes ranging up
to 110,000 a' year, the highest flg
uis 'boln reached by the so-called
"tonnage men," who are paid on the
amount or material turned' out.
A list or fitters In one . Sheffield
factory shows Incomes ranging from
$2,400 to $3,000 a year, while oth
?r ; crarts receive corresponding
- Maiuvof tho best paid workers ire
Swedes end Dutchmen, who work
their machine to the limit and are
not. trammelled by any rules or reg
ulations as to amount of output.
B
ISH OFFICER PLEADS
FOR CLOSER RELA
Lieut. MacQuarrie Asks for Better Understanding Between
England and United StatesSays Germans
Cannot . Win This War
"You people are golug to suffer
during lb coming year," waa the
warning Hint was passed to the
crowd which parked the opeia house
lust night by Lieutenant Hector
MacQuarrle, or the royal field artil
lery, who spoke hera under tha aus
pices of the National Council of De
fense. It was an Intimate Insight
Into the great, titanic atruggle which
Is being wsged on tbe other side of
the water, and many people were
awakened to the fact that tbe weight
of the burden la really going to
come home to the people In every
remote part of tha country.
Lieutenant MacCJuarrle's address
was a masterly effort. In spite of his
protests thst ha Is not a public
speaker. He carried bla audience
with him, swung them with pathoa.
wit, facta and humor. It waa tha
best thing or Its kind that haa hap
pened In Grants Paw (his year. ,
Proceeding Ueutenant MacQuar
rle, several selections were played
by Maboney's orchestra and aa the
speakers ,and the reception' commit
tee went onto tha stage the tuna of
"The Star Spangled Banner" waa
struck up and the entire audience
arose and sung the atlrrlng words.
'frank C, Braiuwell, president of
tha Chamber of Commerce and chair
man or, 4he third Liberty loan com
mittee, aa presiding officer or tha
meeting, welcomed the visitors and
Introduced them with , fitting re
marks. Ha brought forth applause
when ha mentioned that up to yes
terday Josephine county had volun
tarily subscribed 157,000, which Is
14,000 more then 60 per cent of the
quota. ' He expects lo see the entire
amount nearly subscribed voluntar
ily before the end of next week. ;
. Lieutenant Leslie O. Tooie, 364th
Infantry, Camp Lewis, wss Intro
duced and made a atlrrlng appeal
for tha purchase , or Liberty bonds.
(Jculenant Toor.e Is a grsduate of
the University of' pregon and '...
bla brother. Lieutenant ' tamar
Tooie, waa, attending Harward law
school when the war broke out,, The
former , received hjs commission at
the San Francisco training camp and
ye.attee at Plattaburg, N. T.
Referring to the, bonds aa an In
vestment he aald that the dividends
that would be paid after the war
would be a new code of Internation
al morale that will guarantee , to
Belgium the aanie rlghta . as the
strongest nation, will receive: the re
specting of the, chastity and virtue
of women; the discarding of the
views that might makes right; the
freeing of the world from autocratic
tyranny; and the making of liberty
a treasured word throughout the
world. ,
He described the present conflict
as the clash of Ideals, of democracy
against antocracy-r-of the German
Ideal that might makes right With
the American Ideal that right Is
right only when It la right. He then
aketched the difference between the
representation that the German peo
ple have In their government and
that enjoyed by the people or Eng
land, France and America.
He warned against the spread of
propaganda, which he declared to .be
the greatest enemy or the allies. The
war will end In either of two ways
the victory of one over the other on
the field or by neither side winning.
E CARRI
14
San Diego, Apr. 12. A seaplane
carrying 14 passengers arrived from
Snnta Barbara, having covered 190
miles In three hours and oite minute,
or over 63 miles an hour.
The latter would be equal to a Ger
man victory.
Mrs. Harry Clark, accompanied at
tbe piano by'Mra. George C.'Sabln,
sang two selections Just prereedlng
the main sddress or the evening.
Ueutenant Ma Quarrle'e principal
theme waa a plea for a cloaer rela
tion and understanding between the
t'nlted SUtea and England. He
brought out the fact that moet peo
ple have forgotten from their his
tory books that tha people of Eng
land never did right tbe American
colonies, but that the war or the
revolution was brought on by tbe ty
rannical oppression or a German
prince, King George HI. who , waa
ruling England at tba time. Tbe
people or Rngland .were largely
against (he war and the fight was
waged , bjr. hired troops (rom Ger
many -tbe Hessian mercenaries.
. He pointed to' the fact that his
tory record' Burke's-speeches on
tha concllllatlon, Pitt's pleaa for the
colonies, and the' efforts of other
great men to give thla country a
peaceful solution or Us own prob
lems. That the constitution of the United
Statea Is nothing more than an ex
tentlon of the Magna Oharta. for
which .English blood waa spilled, In
ITT 8, that tha bill of rights, and
other measures of self-government
were handed down by. the English,
were facta brought out by the canny
Scotchman. , '
"You Americana hava been told
that England waa the only enemy
that America ever had," he aald.
"Well aa we would aay In polite Eng
Hah, that la a d He. For over
40 years Germany haa been prepar
ing for thla fight, and aba has rea
lited from the start that your blood
and ours, our speech, customs and
mannera were closely related, - and
that In caae of a big eerap that you
would help us. And Germany has
seen' to it that the proper kind of
feeling has ' been cultivated in this
country against England by having
published the wrong kind of facts.
It la thla deadly propaganda which
:ou people at home muat fight' as
hard aa the boys are fighting the
Boche on (be battle field." '
In telling of hla own experiences
Lieutenant MacQuarrla brought out
the fact that at the beginning of
the war England waa worse off by
far than the United Statea. . He re
lated many amusing Incidents con
nected ;wlth bis enlistment, training,
lack or equipment and supplies. He
waa made a lieutenant six weeks af
ter hla enlistment.
Ha gave the Illuminating state
ment that England haa given the
French and her colonies the greatest
credit for the work done, while In
reality aha haa borna the brunt or
the attack. In the war Great Brit
Ian haa put over 8,000,000 men Into
tha Held, of these 1,800,000 have
been killed and the same nnmner
wounded beyond repair. Of the to
tal number, 60 per cent or them
came from England proper. not
counting a man from Scotland,
Wales, Ireland, Canada or other pos
sessions.
Speaking of the present drive, he
said, "We got it In the neck over
there pretty badly two weeka ago
(Continued on page .)
E
London, Apr. 12. Turkish and
German forces in Palestine opened
an offensive Wednesday, attacking
the British front near the const.
HELLISHIIESS
onus sua
Paris Agitin llombettlod bj Umf
lUinge Guns, Killing ItitMra and
Women
Perl, Apr. 12. The Germans
have renewed tha bombardment of
Paris with long range guna today.
iesteraay a shell airuck a foundling
asylum on the outskirts of the city
killing tbree and woundinc 11.
Thirty women with new-born babies
were there. One maternity nurse
ona mother and one baby were
allied, six women natlenta and
tbree babies were Injured.
B'S (f SUM
London, liar. 18. (Correspon
dence of tbe Associated Press)
Crews of the German submarines
ara downhearted and often -extremely
nervous. British seaman whose
veasels have been torpedoed ' and
who have thus had an opportunity
to observe tha Germane bear teatl
mony .to thla fact. In the official
recorda of the submarine war, aays
the Manchester Guardian, again and
again the aubmarlne crews are des
cribed aa "very depressed" or ''very
nervous." . Here la one description:
"Master and crew all agree and were
very much struck, by the .pallid ap
pearance of the officers and crew of
the aubmarlne, and by their nervous
and excited manner. The captain of
tha submarine waa continually urg
Ing haste and the officer who .was
placing the bomba could hardly hold
them from the condition of nervous
tension in which he appeared to be."
One of the crew who had. lived
long In England, speaking to tbe
boat's crew, .cursed the war and
wished it was over. In many cases
the Germans tried to Juatify them
selves or excuse themselves to their
fellow-seamen. Some of these re
ports show the. hldeousness .or the
German fighting system, but they
are all mild compared with the clas
sic story of German bestiality, aa in
the caae or tbe Belgian Prince, where
the men were taken on the submar
ine deck, .their lirebelta removed
and, then It submerged. The men of
one three-masted schooner, were
left with .only one oar In their boat,
and for this the master had to beg,
the others being thrown overboard.
GRAttlpp.
L
Melita Commandery,- Knights
Templar, will be hosts thla evening
to two officers or the grand com
mandery, who will visit this city on
their official inspection, trip. , They
are Grand ' Eminent ' Commander
Edward E. ' Kiddle, of LaOrande;
Grand Secretary R. D. Robinson, of
Portland, and C. W. Nlms, of Ash
land, members of the grand com-
mandery,
' A 6 o'clock dinner will be served
in honor of the visitors at the Ox
ford hotel, , which will be followed
later by the annual visit of the
grand eminent commander to Melita
Commandery. '
Haa Cousin Here '
' Roy Dyer, of , Mosstown,' Wis.
passed through the city this after-
non on his way from Camp Lewis to
San Francisco where he and others
will be assigned to an artillery bat
tery. Mr. Dyer stated that he has a
cousin, William Payne, living In this
city.
V. S. MARINES. LAXI .
,AT VLADIVOSTOK
' Harbin, Friday, Ait. 6. Ameri
can marines have been landed at
Vladivostok, as well as British and
Japanese forces, according to ad
vices from that place. ' The Ameri
cans are In control oJ the. docks,
while the Japanese are guarding the
railway and ammunition depots.
GERMANS DRIVE
WEDGE DEEPER
NEAR BEIHUIIE
ENGLISH HAXG GRIMLY TO ME8.
SIXES KIDGE WHILE GEHMAJf
HORItEM BUtGE O.N
GERMAN LOSSES USE Mill
Three Attacka In Great Waves Are
Repelled With Frightful Lws at
Villa fhapiielle
By Associated Preaa
With the British hanging trlmlr
onto the bulk of Mesinea Ridge, tha
Germans aouthward are pushing a
wedge deeper Into tbe British line
near Bethune. . The point of the
wedge waa driven further laat night
along the Lye canal to Mervllle.
The .Germans are making soma
progreaa today. 'They gained soma
ground along Mesalnea ridge, hut tha
British again drove them out this
morning by a counter attack.
The British repulsed three attacka
In great wavea at Villa Chaoelle.
The ground la strewn with German
corpses.
OVER TO? OH L0.MI
Waahlagton.' Apr. ll.-Oregott la
the first state to report over-subscription
of the Liberty loan quota
and will stand at the bead of tha
natlon'a honor roU. Iowa claims tho
flag, but haa not filed reports eub-
etantlatlng its claim. , Portland and
Toledo, Ohio, claim first honor for
the flag for the large cltlea.
DK6KDER
EXPB1SIVE TO CU5S
Chicago, Apr. 12, The drafting
of pitcher Grover Alexander for ser
vice in, the .national army, will coat
the Chicago, national baseball club,
150,000, President Weeghmaa an
nounced today. ' "But we are glad
to help the government, anyway," ha
aald.
LI
Washington, Apr. 12. As a part
of the government's plan to encour
age the - Increased production - -of
food, the reclamation, .service will)
lease 66,000 acres of public lands in,
Lake, Malbuer, Harney, and . Grant
counties; Oregon, for ' agricultural
and pasturage. The landa are now
all withdrawn . from entry. A por
tion qI the Truckee-Carson Irrigation
project In Nevada. will also be open
ed to homesteaders. .
ASTORIA MAYOR FILES
FOR GOVERNORSHIP
Salem, Apr., 12.--,Mayor. -F... CX,
Harley. of Astoria, today filed hip,
petition for the republican nomina
tion : for governor. He declares ror
a live state and against national
prohibition. ' i .? ' i
Cyril, iBrowneil, of Umatilla coun
ty, and Allen Eaton, of Eugene, tiled
for the lower house of the ''legisla
ture. " 'Both are republicans. Maria
L; Thldden,' of Portland, a woman,
filed for the democratic nomination
as representative in congress.
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