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It 'ar, DAILY EDITION VOL. VI II Nit. IHH. amm pajm. joskphimb oocmr. orjcoon. wkinkhiay, may 20, im W1I0LK Nl'MBER SS7S. BERLIN REPORTS CAPTURE OF 25,000 BRITISH AND FRENCH PRISONERS Oct Freed and Ose English t , sale uptsre Allied Irccps rail Back rive Rifle (0 Outskirts cf Soisscss lii-rlln. May 28. Germans no hav taken I5,uuu prisoners on the Alan battl front, Including on French and on F.ngllsh general. Paris, Msy ll.-Generul Furh re ports tli elluallou well In hand. No Important lln of communication la a yet threatened by the Oeruun ad vance. It la expected that another 4 a houra will H' Ilia drive dvllnltely atoipd. French troopa are bvgluniiig to gain on the Oerman forces, today, In their contest for speed In bringing In reserves. Itlich prslt hai been glv. d to the French reserve for the perfect order In which they are -com tng Into the fighting line. The beat newa of the day, how ever, waa the lirllllant succ thej . '. 1.. .u. u...mi.. 1 sector, thl. bln. th nrat Important"" " 'fM " action that th. hoy. of th mi.ed ' "." he V.ale State, have carried out .Ion. rl" M'r her h of th Carman wedge baa been " jthrint. Th flank however, have . Parlt, May II Th French troop ben compelled to fall back. Bolt have fallen back to th eastern out-, aom la about aaven mile aouth of tklrla of BotMona, a distance of th naareat battl line, aa It existed about flv mil, wher th battl before th new Oerman drive began till contlnuea bitterly. The war Monday. PASSENGER SCHEDULE 2 1 , When the new order of the mil road admlnlat ration goes Into effect on Thudiday, June f, th Shasta lim ited between Portland and flan Fran claco will be discontinued. . This train It equaled by few or th fa inout llinlled passenger tralna of th American railroads nnd rivaled by none. Other train change will be made aa followt; Train No. 13, aouth. will leave Oranta Paai at 8:07 a. m. Instead of 1:0(1. No. 15, aouth. leaves at J: 50' ' p. m. Inttead of S: 10. No. 16, aouth, ; will leave at 10:11 p. m. instead of " 10:10. ; r ; Train No. 14, north, will leave Grants Pane at 1:47 a. ni. Inttead of 1:10 a. ni. at present. No. 54, north, will leave at 1:30 p. m. In stead' of 6:50. No. II, north, will leave at 1:11 p. m. Instead of 7:10. FOR ECONOMIC AID ! , Moscow, May II, Th Bolshevlkl ' newspaper My that Russia to fully awar of the danger threatening t them front th Oerman Imperialism, but that they do not wlah any help from the allie that will result In : Buaala re-entering the war. They iro anxious for economlo help. SOLDI MW Ml HT UK III KIF.D ON FOREIGN WAR FIKl,l ' Washington, May 29. Congress man Moor today told the house that condition beyond th control of the American military authorities made It Impracticable for th war depart ment to grant th request of the relatives that fallen American sol diers be returned to the United Btates for burial. H read cable gram from General Pershing, saying It was Impracticable to embalm bodies In the theater of operatlona and recommending that the United States government conform to the custom of the allies In burying their ijend near the Held of battl. . General fcckied b Whole- office today Announced that ' the French and HrltUh troopi have fat ten back to the helghla aouth and southestt of 8t. Thierry, where they art now holding positions between the Vest river and th Attn canal. With th French Army, May ? Th Oermana did not nuke much headway yeeterday. They crowed th Alan river and alto th Veal river In aom placet. I'trla, May II. There baa been no let-up In tbe German drtv today, aouth of th Alan river and the al- Ilea hav been forced to give up more ground. Confidence, however, hat been expressed In Parlt, that th re nerves which are coming up ihortly )U "top th enemy' advance. It li PANIC BY AIR RAID Th Hague. May :. KJghty elghl of the persona who were killed when the British air squadron raid ed Cologne on May 18 were burled In th tame grave, according to Let Nouvellea. The correspondent of th paper aay th Inhabitants of the city are panto atrlrken. The Hague. May !!. Detail of the British air raid last week In the (.lege district of Belgium, are pub lished today by Let Nouvellct. . A score of machines participated . In the air. raid, dropping about 20 bombs. One bomb fell In the middle of the important railway station at Kln- kempols, killing or Injuring a large number of German soldier and civil ians. The explosion set fire to the building and part of. It waa destroy' ed. Another missile fell close to the Mouse Iron Works, which waa occu pled by Oermana and it produced panic among th worker. Bombs also were dropped at Herstal upon th Pleper Munition Works and the National arsenal, which now Is Oer man-controlled. The damage here waa small. ' STATE WAR HOSPITAL IS DESTROYED BY Columbus, 8. C, May 29. The war state hospital for the Insane was destroyed by tire today, burning to death 16 patients. Kleven other patient are missing and five others were severely buried. IMTKH HT.1TKH IX fiplI'ATHt WITH HLAVS . Washington, May 29. In an In terview today, Secretary Lansing said that the United States views with "earnest sympathy," the nation alistic aspirations of the Csecho 81a vaks and the Jugo-Slavs.. Iiiipi mi vt 111 1 n VtLbn UAH lb Arthar Walwya Kvana, on tliaaUu- qua Program, Telia What Ames-tea Mrana to Him Every person who attended Chau tauqua laat night got the worth ot their entire season ticket to th lec ture by Arthur Walwyn Evans, nephew of Premier Lloyd George or England. Mr. Evana la a thorough ly Americanised Welshman . who la on th circuit to tell th people what America means to him. In telling them what It meant to nlm, he also, no doubt, la th spokes man for aom millions of other men a well aa women who hav made this th land of their adoption. He also told many who ar Americans by birth Just what It should mean to them. Evana' mannerisms smack of Brit ish blrtb, but his expressions ar so typically American that he la either a very apt pupil or he was born In th wrong. country! As a baseball fan h ought to be able to pull loalng team out of any aort of hoi Into which It bad fallen; a straight from th shoulder exhorter he would run Billy Sunday a close race; aa a platform spellbinder he waa not to be outclassed by the elo quence of the sliver tongued Bryan who appeared on th same platform only few hours before. America Means Fraternity "Summed up In one word," aald Evans, "America meant to me frater nity, spelled with a capital F. It U a fraternity built upon the amalga mation of the Britain, the Swede, the Frenchman, the Italian, the Jew. In fact th liberty loving element of very nation com to this land for the exercise of liberty and human rlghta.' The Boyal Hawaiian quartette, which gave a prelude at both after noon nd evening sessions, waa much enjoyed. ' NEW WAR BOOKS AT THE PUBLIC LIBRARY New war books at the public li brary thla week Include: Face to face with kalserlsm. Gerard. , The war and the Bagdad railway. Jastrow. My home In th field of mercy, Huard. . White morning. Atherton. ' The major. Connor. Treasury of war poetry. Clarke. Conscript 2181. , ' Father of a soldier. Dawson. , Student In arm, second series. Hankey. , , , 4 , i ' Army French Wllklns. -J Letter and diary of Alaar Seeger. IHE SIN :t London, May 29. The transport licasowe Castle la reported sunk by submarine. The; British Admiralty announces 101 persons.- drowned. HAS ItKCOKH OF 112 AtltPL.WW Pari, May 29. Major Baracca. the leading Italian ace, haa brought down his 3 2d adversary, according to a dispatch from the Italian front to the Temps. , ," SPELLBIilDER GERMAN COURSES E Hum langtume To He I filmed French and Hnui1iiIi In High Hchool of HUM iy Balem, May XI. Tbe Oerman language will be strlckta from th high schools of th atat ent!r!y aa a court ot study. This aitlou taken by th stat board of n'uc tlon, romprlsed of Oovrnor Wltbv r(mbe, Secretary Olcott and Superin tendent Churchill. In Ita place courses will be In' eluded In French and Spanish, Those who r taking th coura this year will b allowed to complete It to se cure their credit. Oerman la now taught In four- year courses. It will be optional with the schools aa to whether they place a four-year course In French or Spanish, or whether they give two years' French and two years' Span ish. Alt schools of the sUt except tho In Portland ar affected by the order, and Oerman already haa been removed there. 01 ' REGISTER ON JUNE 5 Registration day Wednesday, June 6, 1118. Who Must Register Every man residing In the United States, wheth er cltlien or non-cltlten. who hss reached the age of 21 years since registration day on June 5th, on jyr,.ago.- . -. - llvara for Registration From 7 o'clock a. m. to 8 o'clock p. m. on Registration day. Wednesday, June 5th. Penalty for Failure to Register Up to one year In Jail. Sickness No Excuse for . Not Reg istering If too 111 too appear before your local draft board to register In person, send om 'competent ' per son to explnln circumstances to tbe board and obtain registration card, wllh authority to fill It out. This card, after being filled out, must be returned to local board by your rep resentative, or mailed to board with stamped self-addressed envelope for return of registration certificate Absence no Excuse for not Regis tering Unavoidable absence ' from your home district will not exens you for failure to register. ; If you must be unavoidably absent, go at once to local board neareat to place where you happen to be, explain the circumstances, and registration card will be filled out by thla board and given to you. Mall this card, Imme diately, together with stamped self- addressed envelope for return to you of registration 'certificate, to your own local board. Do not delay, for your registration card must reacn your home local board by Wednes day, June 5, Beglatratlon Certificate Every man registered . will e given a reg istration certificate. For your own QUITTED protection, keep this cerUflcatetwttiijUl.y llode you at all umea ready to snow on demand; otherwise, you are . liable to arrest on suspicion of having evaded registration. . Soldiers and Sailor Not to Regis terThe only 11-year-old men not required to register ar those al ready In the military or naval ser vice of the. United States. But men 21 years old who have been dis charged from the military or naval aervlce must register. AFtiERiCAN DOCTORS TAKFN AS PPISONERS Amsterdam. May 29. A Wolff bureau telegram from Berlin re counting the fighting along the Chcmln-drs-Dames, briefly mentions the fact that there were several Am erican doctors among the prisoners taken from the British. YANKEES II N Acericass Sweep Ttroajli PICARDY B OJedTe-2C0 hth Fall Prbc: U. S. Lcssts Cc;irzthrd7 With th American Army, May II. Th American Una now run 200 yarda ast of Catlgny, as a result of th successful attack yesterday, their first offensive blow being struck In a fog and mist. . The French Unks had very llttl to do aa th American artillery had prepared the way. The Americans who had dug In, mad a hard fight and took about 200 prisoner. The American moral la splendid. - The wounded wer teen In the hospital afterward, laughing and joking about their different adventure. Th Germans launched a counter attack laat night west of Montldler but wer repulsed with heavy losses With the British Army In France. May 29. Th American troopa on the French front near Montdldler de livered an attack yesterday against the Oerman positions, fought their way through all objectives. Including the village of Cantlgny, and captur ed 140 prisoners. Tbe American Attack waa along a two kilometer front, and It teem to hav taken the hard-hitting Ameri cana Juat about thre-quarter of an hour to complete their conquest which Included that amount of terri tory aa well aa the village of Can tlgny an exceptionally abort . Upie for auch an operation. This remark ably fine showing comes aa a fitting companion-piece to the brilliant work done by the American soldiers In repulsing an enemy assault made against them In tbe same region on Monday morning. One American division was attacked at that time and the graycoats met with a com plete reversal at all points. The enemy attack was not a heavy one, however, and was easily dealt TO USE KHAKI CLOTH New York, May 29. Olive drab and khaki-colored cloth will not be manufactured hereafter for civilian use, tbe American Association of Woolen and Worsted Manufacturers announced at a meeting here yester day. The restriction was decided upon at th request ot the war de partment, which pointed out that the olive drab and khaki have been consecrated to the use of United States troops and that the couimer clal use of the colors la Improper. It was explained that the decision will sffect the Boy Scouta and all who sought to make their styles of wearing apparel partake of the mill- F San Francisco, May 29. Twenty two thousand men, who are enlisted as loggers in the army and have been engaged In the spruce forests of, Washington and Oregon have hern transferred from the control of the chief signal officer. Colonel DIs 011. to the" western department of the army. . RAIDING (1KRMAN t'lTIFH Amsterdam, - May 29. Nineteen bombs have been dropped on Landau. Germany, by 10 allied airmen, the Tageblatt, ot Berlin, reports. The garrison headquarters and private houses are said to have been dam- aged BATTLE SECTOR Village cf Ca:lij:j la First with by th Americana, who had th situation well In hand at all time. Word of these two victoria bar added much-to th very favorabl luiprasIoii which th Amtrieaa troopa already have created gloat th British front. It waa a forgon conclusion that th Oerman would mak th nwest of th all! along thla front th object of aa attack, la an attempt to puah them back aad thereby creat a feeling that they formed a weak Una la th defend ing chain. Th general opinion of th way la which these American troopa har handled themselves la th laat tw day teems to be summed up m a comment mad to th correspondent by a French lahioa officer: , "Magnificent!" he exclaimed with delight. "That la the tort of stuff w will give th boche." , - 'if . . I The. Americans penetrated th German positions to th dpth of nearly a mil. Th American ar tillery smothered all th German ef forts of resistance. Washington, May 29. Th war department la highly pleased with the conduct ' ahown ' by American troops In the battle. la the Montdl dler sector. This conflict shows that the Americans have been very apt la learning the methoda of - modern warfare. Some of the official believe that the American attack may be th forerunner of an allied counter of fensive by General Foch. 1 Berlln'a . claim that the German took 16,000 prisoners In tb new thrust on the Alsne river, if true. I not out of reason. . ILIf Uiil .1 PRESIDENT VmLSON Indianapolis, ' May 29. Senator New, In addressing th Indiana re publican state convention, asserted that President. Wilson waa the' moat astute leader that the democratic party ever had. "He la th most un compromising In his partisanship ot any man who has occupied tb White House since the' time of . Andrew Jackson," he said. "Creel is partisan in every thing he does or thinks. With his bunch of socialistic muck raking misfits, Is employing propa ganda In every form." . - 1 OF STUFFS IS INDICTED Washington, May 29. Francis S. Nash, a medical director of the navy, and his wife, were indicted today on the charge of' hoarding foodstuffs. Investigators found among other things, a ton and a half of sugar, In the Nash home. TWO MOItK MHIP8 ARE ' LAUNCHED AT PORTLAND "-vi and.. Mny 29. The Capltaine de Beauchamp, a wooden steamer tor the French government,' and the Western Ught, an 8,800-ton steel steamer for the emergency fleet cor poration, were launched here yester day. A new keel. for another vessel was laid on the ways Just vacated by 'he Capltaine de Beauchamp within 'ess than a minute after she h;d taken to the water.