, University of Ore. Llbran
DAILY EDITION
VOK IX., No. IfJ.
GRANT PAS. JOSBPHHia OOU TTT, OREGOV, SINHAY, OCTOBER 13, 118.
WHOLE NUMBER 47.
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CITY Of DOUAI
THOUGHT TO BE
HONEYCOMBED
ItlUTIHH AllVANt'K TO Ol'T
MKIHTH OK CITY HIT KXUH'N.
TKK MAW GIUHND MINKH
HUNS PREPARE FOR FIRM STASO
AlUm Cliwlag In on Valnlrnnf
wmn (Inlft to lUHreal Prom
Iktlidnn Ctxut Countermanded
Itrltlntt Headquarters In France,
Oil. 13. The British advance posti
have now fceen pusUed to within a
little more than a mile from the
outskirts of Doual. The advance from
here will have to be cautloua a many
ground mines have been encountered
and there ! good reaion to believe
that the town Haelf Is honeycombed
with death trap.
There is every evidence that the
Oertuana are preparing to make
strong stand on the Valenciennes
line which la a little eaat of the
River Selle. This line has already
been reached 'by the Anglo-Ameri
cana.
I'arls, Oct. 12. The Germans
have paused In their flight before
the Anglo-American advance from
tho Cambral-St. Quentln line long
enough to attempt a stand along the
Belle river.
Paris, Oct. 12. Today finds Ger
many a little nearer tho brink of dla
aster. The continued attacks of the
all lee has dumfounded the Germans,
The evacuation of the Belgian coast
appears to have been ordered, then
countermanded, which act the Ger
mane are likely to rue.
I,ondon, Oct. 12. North of the
Hcarpe river in the direction of Oouai
the British have passed the Drocourt-
Queant line and reached the Lens
Doual railway, in the vicinity of
Iteaumont, and at Qulery-La-Motte
further north, have arrived at Henln-
Lletard, on the Doual-Carvln road.
Tho enemy evidently Is . retiring
from Doual.
The British have captured St. Au
bort and thus are within seven miles
of the main Gorman lateral line of
communications, namoly the Valen-clennos-Lllle
railway.
The enemy Id retreating on the
wholo front from the SolBSons-l.aon
road to Grand Pre, north of the Ar
gnnne forest, and also from the north
bank of the Snipped river in Cham
pagne. General Qouraud's army In
Champagne advanced four miles this
morning and captured Machault. The
enemy Is falling back toward Vou
?.lera. Nearly 10,000 French civilians
have boon liberated from the Ger
mans by the advancing British and
Americans.
About 2, C00 civilians rescued from
tho Germans at Caudry rushed from
the town as the 'British stormed to
ward it, waving their arms and
cheering. Tears of Joy streamed
-down their thin faces. The Germans
had robbed them of all their belong
ings. London, Oct. 12. The British
continued their advance north ot the
Sonsee river and have taken Hamll,
Brebleres and Culncy, near Doual.
MAY REMOVE HAN ON GAS
EAST OK THE MISSISSIPPI
Washington, Oct. 11. The ban on
xasollneless Sunday will be removed
utter October 13, It sufficient gaso
line Is reported In stock at that time,
according to announcement ot . the
luel administration.
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LOT
HAVE
INTENDED MURDER
Break Through INdice lines and
Tries iu Shake Hands With I'nx
Ident WIIhou Harmless
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New York, Oct. 12. While Pres
ident Wilson marched at the head of
the 'American division In the Liberty
day parade, a man broke through
the police lines and tried to shake
hands with him. Secret service
agenta, after an Investigation, said
that the man's intentions were harm
less.
Zurich, Oct. 12. Uaron von Hue
aarek, premier of Austria, has re
signed and Emperor Charles Is re
ported to have appointed Professor
Heinlcb Lammasch, a pacifist, to the
position.
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CASUALTY LIST 4
The following casualties are re
ported by the commanding general of
the American expeditionary forces
for today:
Killed In action ...
Missing In action
Wounded severely
Died of wounds ....
162
... 28
...267
...101
pled of acciilent 17
Died of disease 107
Total 672
Died of dlseifte Herbert K. Par
ker, Portland: John W. Neighbors,
Roseburg.
Died from accident 1-loyd Wblt-
more, Laurel, Ore.
Casualties reported for Friday In
eluded:
Killed fn action Robert A. Sher
wood. Portland; Charles W. Jensen,
Carlton, Ore.
Died of wounds Herbert H. Ed'
ger, Tillamook.
Severely wounded Corporal F,
T. Clark, Portland: Private William
J. Berg, Astoria, Ore.
SEES 8EHVICK AT VKRIH'N,
ItKAlMONT AND ARK AS
MAJOR LOU13 S. VIKN
Major Louis Stanislas Vlen, of the
Royal Artillery of Kingston, Canada,
Is one of the many who have made
the supreme sacrifice on French
soil. The major was Killed while
leading his men in a charge at Ar
ras, August 28, 1918. He also saw
active service at Baumont and Ver
dun. Major Vlen was 31 years of age
and the youngest brother ot a fam
ily of nine. He Is a brother ot Rev.
J. G. Vlen, temporarily pastor of the
Catholic church here, but who spent
15 years in Chicago doing missionary
work. '. ,.'
The major had' been In the service
tor about 12 years, having been sent
to 'England .from Quebec during the
second year of ths war, as an Instruc
tor,
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Reports Not Official, Although
man Empire Are Known to
Scheming Before Allies
London, Oct. 11. Turkey has
made definite peace proposals 4
to President Wilson, according 4-
to reports here.
4- London. Oct. 11. Austria-
Hungary and Turkey have in- 4
4 formed Germany that they will 4
4 accept President Wilson's peace 4
4 terms, says a Central New die- 4
4 patch from Amsterdam. 4
Berne. Oct. 12. The Wolff Bu
reau saya Germany's reply to the
president's note was sent last nlgbt.
and Is in a sense an acceptance.
Washington. Oct. 12. The public
Is warned in an authoratlve state
ment against believing that Germany
la about to end the war by uncondi
tional surrender.
' Paris. Oct. 1 l.-Seml-off lclal sum
marlea from the German press com
ments Indicate that Germany will
ask ths evacuation of German col
onies and occupied Turkish territory,
as an offset for the evacuation of al
lied territory. It la believed that
(Maxlmllllan will have no difficulty
In announcing the adoption without
restriction of the president's pro
gram. Germany Is apparently hurry
ing to become a democratic state. Po
litical amnesty will be announced
and a new governor has been ap
pointed for Alsace-Lorraine.
The atate department is still with
out confirmation of the reports ths.
Turkey has appealed to the allies for
peace on the allies' terms, and that
A
SHU
STRAY, STONES,
COUNTRY
Behind American lines in France, Examining the stone, it felt rath
Oct. 12 Nothing is real in the great er like a big cardboard box, and
American camouflage station here.
All is deception.
Huge willow trees like those in
Flanders with trunks two feet in di
ameter and a mass of sprouting
branches at the top are steel tubes
designed to hide an observer. Even
on close inspection they looked like
real trees to The Associated Press
correspondent who visited the sta
tion and, with the commandant, ex
plored their mysterious underground
recetses.
They were of plaster cloth wound
about the central steel tube and with
pieces ot real bark fitted around the
trunk. A small gauze orifice, paint
ed to match the 'bark, was not not-
Iced until pointed out by the officer,
This was for the observer standing
within the steel core of the tree
Ten feet away the turf opened, dis
closing a passage with steps leading
to a tunnel and thence to the base of
the tree. It was a tight fit in this
tree trunk, but from the gauze ori
flee one had a sweep ot the whole
nenr-by country,
A huge boulder, such as one sees
along country roads, was noticed
among the trees. The big stone,
five feet high and seven across, look
ed very real, and yet this, too, . was
camouflage a make- believe bould
er in which an observer and machine
gun could lurk
Dual Monarchy and Otto
be Crnmhling-Tricksters
Cross German Border
another communication from Austria
is coming. -The arrival of the German
note Is expected not later than to
morrow night.
Paris, Oct. 12. Dispatches from
Grman sources quote the Baden
Presse, the seml-oRlcial organ of
Prince Maxmlllan of Baden, the im
perial chancellor, as saying:
"If, Germany is ready for sacrl
flees It must be understood that she
is not ready to give up Alsace-Lor
raine or a single meter of German
commercial territory In the Orient.
Neither question can be submitted to
any discussion whatsoever."
Washington, Oct. 12. It Is be
lieved here that unless Germany Is
actually ready for unconditional sur
render. Maxlmilllan will not reply,
saying be represents the German
people themselves, regardless of the
war lords. .Only . such a -reply could
mora the president to propose peace
negotiations to the allies. - There
will probably be diplomatic tricksters
attempting to get something better
than a dictated peace before the al
lies begin crossing the German bor
der. -
There is not the slightest lnten-
tion on the part ot the allies to slack-
en the tremendous general offensive
of the entente and American forces.
which is progressing so rapidly and
successfully that every day's delay
on the part of the German govern
ment brings nearer its Involuntary
compliance with the conditions laid
down by President Wilson that Ger
man soldiers must be withdrawn
from occupied territory 'before there
can be any discussion of peace.
DEATH LURKS IN
TREES AND ROCKS
gave slightly to the pressure of the
hand. The frame was wood, the
covering burlap, painted a gray
brown, with patches of moss. And
burled amid the moss the canvas flap
raised to let through the nozzle of
the machine gun.
"You have your own telegraph
system," was remarked on observing
the line of telegraph poles stretching
across the plain.
The commandan. smiled. "Those
are periscope telegraph poles," he
explained.
The poles were veritable telegraph
poles, with wires strung from the
tops, just as they are seen along
country roads. But each pole was
hollow, to permit a periscope to be
raised to a high observing point,
while a covered pit at the base of the
pole accomodated the observer tak
ing the readings of the periscope.
Beside the periscope poles, there
were periscope trees, with hollow
stumps from which the observer's
instrument was manipulated and the
readings made In pits below the
roots.
A camouflage stone wall was an
other curious device standing among
the camouflage trees and poles. This
wall, looking like the ruin ot an old
mill, was of light plaster construe-
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LOST Oil STEAL!
Go Down ia a Colli loa Daring Heavy
Storm off the Scottish Coast
800 Are Rescued
London, Oct. 12. More than 260
American soldiers were lost on the
transport Otranto last Sunday, In a
collision with the transport Kazhl
mlr, off the south Scottish coast.
Over 200 bodies hare been recovered.
About 300 were rescued by a British
destroyer during the terrific storm.
. ALLEGED 1. W. W.
IS TRIED AT PORTLAND
Sheriff Lewis left Thursday for
Portland, where he went as a witness
In the case of W. J. Mills, an alleged
member of the I. W. W., and who
formerly worked at Swede Basin,
near this city. It is said that Mills
is conducting bis own case. 'He Is
charged with having made disloyal
utterances In violation of the espion
age act, the charge reading, for mak
ing "disloyal, profane, scurrilous
and abusive language about the gov
ernment of the United States and Its
administrative officials.". It is the
opinion of those well Informed on
the .case that Mills will receive
very, stiff sentence.
INFLIENZA STILL RAGING
IX U. 8. ARMY CAMPS
Washington, Oct. 12 The epidemic
of Spanish Influenza, which has
reacnea practically every section ot
the cutry, continued today with no
8ign8 of abatement,
Detailed reports as to Its spread
mons the clvillaJ population were
not available at the public health
service bureau today, but officials
said . nothing had been received to
Indicate that the malady had even
reached its peak.
New cases ot Influenza In army
camps showed a slight decline in
the 24 hours ended at noon today,
but pneumonia cases increased over
yesterday. Influenza cases reported
numbered 12,024, pneumonia cases
2,824 and deaths 892. Yesterday's
reportes showed 12,321 new cases of
influenza, 2,797 new cases of pneu
monia and 889 deaths.
The total number of influenza
cases at camps since the beginning
of the epidemic has reached 223,000,
pneumonia cases 27,907, and deaths
8.335.
SALVATION CHAPLAINS
"There are forty salvation Army
chaplains serving the soldiers over
seas.
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T. J. Shattuck began yesterday to
haul chrome ore from the Hotter
property on Williams creek to this
city for shipment. Mr. Shattuck Is
using two heavy trucks and will
make two trips a day with the ore,
which has to be hauled a distance ot
about 25 miles, in addition to a
three mile haul In wagons in get
ting it down the mountain to where
the trucks can handle it.
It is said that there are, about 60
tons of the ore at the bottom ot
the mountain, ready for shipment
and the two trucks,- which are kept
going 24 hours a day, are expected
to aeuver at least 88 tons of ore
every 24 hours.
Mr. Shattuck states that he has
just finished hauling two cars of
chrome for Mr. Dressel, : hauling it
from Pleasant creek to Rogue River.
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ALU
ALL VILLAGES
BUM III THE
UN
SECTOR
IMPORTANT EVENTS
EXPECTED
SOON WHICH WILL CHANG B
WAR ASPECT THERE
Boche Pause la Flight and Attempt
Stand Before Tanks Along tho
Sella River
With the French trobps in Franoe,
Oct. 12. Vouziers and Guise and
all the villages In the whole region
south of Laon are 'burning. The
Americans are closing in on Don-
Sur-Meuse, while their left wing is
within five miles of Buxancy. Im
portant events are expected which
will change the entire face of things
in this part of the Woe ire region.
" With Anglo-Americans on Valen
ciennes Front, Oct. 12. Two addi
tional batteries have been captured
by the Americans operating south of
St. Souplet , The German gunner ;
were bayoneted.
The evacuation of the city of Va
lenciennes itself was started ' threa
weeks ago! "according to .the prison
ers. REPLACE THE OLD ONES
Portland, Oct. 12. A big food
pledge drive, the object ot which
will be to pledge all Oregon families
to a strict observance ot the new
conservation program and to hang
the new Hoover "Home Card" in ev
ery home is announced for the week
beginning October 28 by Federal
Food Administrator W. B. .Ayer.
Simultaneously drives will be car
ried on tn all other states.
"This will be a national cam
paign", said Mr. Ayer, "and because
the most conscientious cooperation
of every American family is needed
in saving the 15,000,000 tons ot
foodstutfs that will be required by
overseas demand during the coming
year. It Is important. The new home
cards are now being printed and will
be in the hands ot county food ad
ministrators and their distributing
organizations in time for a system
atic and thorough distribution dur
ing the week beginning October 28.
Similar methods to those used last
year will be utilized, the public
schools being an Important factor In
reaching the homes of the state. The
new card will bear the official em
blem and will set forth in detail the
definite conservation duties of each
family and member thereof. Each
family pledged to a strict observ
ance ot tne new conservation pro
gram will receive one of these cards.
which are to be hung In the home.
It is important that every member ot
every family should realize the Im
portance ot his or her individual sup
port of the food administration and
rigidly observe every tenet of the
new conservation program as set
forth on this card."
The food administration's first
"home card" was distributed during
the week of October 29, 1917, just a
year previous to the coming drive.
All those old cards are to be taken
down and destroyed, and by Sunday
night, Nov. S, State Conservation
chairman, Arthur M. Churchill, In
charge of the campaign, hopes to
have a new card hanging in every.
Oregon home. : , ! ji