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mm,? . , 4 i - " DAILY EDITION VOL. IX JOSKPHDn OOOWTT, OREGON, SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 8, 1018. WHOLE NUMBER 2BOS. No. 40. GRANT PASS, Hi 1SIM PBISDBEBS IB HI IB 10 1 SIB GERMAN PEACE if DIE inf S jini ii n M oif BOYAL GW1S JOKY IS MEANS All BUT KPW'rSkM mmUL BANISHED BY CAPITjUW "tsSS-r TO ! PffUKtolUfflll.-yy THE GERMANS NOT RELIEVED THAT SUPREME COUNCIL'S AILMIHTICH TERMS WILL HE ACCEPTED ' KAtSERTO QUIT AT PRQPERT1ME Iloche to Withdraw 80 Milt Hoyond . Um) Rhine, mid Hurrrndor Flrrt ut Submarines Washington, Nov. 2 Information from diplomatic channels aaya the supreme war council armistice terms will require tbe .Germans to with draw 30 miles beyond the Rhine, surrender liellgolsnd, with the Ger man fleet, Including the submarines. The terma are so drsstlo ttntl some allltary experts doubt If the Ger mans will accept without further fighting. Psrls, Nov. 2. A Geneva dl Mich to tbe Temps, saya: "Tbe ab dication "of Wllhulm II may be con sidered an accomplished fact. Of f I clsl publication has been delayed until tbe opportune .moment." STATE GAME WARDEN FOR WILLAMETTE BIIL rortland. Ore.. Nov. 2. "Selfish Interests are seeking to kill the Wll lamette river bill, claiming that It the bill Is sustained by a vote of the people the price of food fish will be higher. This is not true. The bill U sn economic measure to keep alive the salmon fUherlos of Oregon. The Willamette river Is the only stream which can give adequate salmon egg supply for our hatcheries. ' "It the voters want to maintain and build up tbe salmon fishing In dustry or this state, amounting to moro than 37,000,000, more than 60 per cent of which waa paid to the fishermen themselves, they should vote 306 X Yes. (Slitnod) "CARL D. SHOEMAKER. "Btate Game Warden and Act ing Master Fish Wardon." I London, Nov. 2. Anglo-French forces in Flanders have reached the Scheldt river as far north as Eecko, seven miles southwest . ot Ghent. Roads this morning were choked with German traffic. The allies' guns are turned upon them, reaping a terrible harvest. London, Nov. 2. Valenciennes has boon captured by the. BrltlBh. The Canadians, under command ot General Currle, have passed through the town. The British took the town of Preseau, after seizing high ground. . With the Americans Northwest ot Verdun, Nov. 2. The Germans are giving away before the American pressure and are retreating beyond the Freya positions. The Germans retired so rapidly that the Americans experienced difficulty In maintaining a contact. ; With the Americans In France, Nov. 2. The Amorlcan First army ALLIED GUNNERS SHELL ROADS CHOKED ITU PCD milium Copenhagen, Nov. 2. King Borlf, ot Bulgaria, who ascended the throne October S, bat abdicated. Peasant government baa been es tablished at Tlrnova, under the lead' ershlp of M. Stambultwsky, who bas been chief of the peaaanta and Agar- lant ot Bulgaria for aome time. He la aald to be In command of the re publican army of 40,000. CASUALTY MOT 4 Tbe following casualties are re ported by the commanding general of the ' American expeditionary forces for Saturday: Wounded severely 66 Wounded, degree undetermined..! 57 Wounded slightly ..... 110 Totsl ..322 Tbe following casualties are re ported by the commanding general of the American expeortionary forces for todsy: Killed in action ...... 66 Missing In action 60 Vounded severely ....... Died of wounds 49 Died ot accident Died ot disease 71 Wounded, degree undetermined 267 Wounded slightly 264 Prisoners - xrt at sea , 1 Total -874 Died of disease Wesley J Coo- per, Forest Grove. Died of disease James H. Blake ley, Marcola, Ore. Wounded, degree undetermined- Hamilton F. Corbett, Portland. Wounded allghtly Charles L Walker, Hillsboro. ' . . Total casualties reported to date, Including the above: x Killed In action, (Including 395 at aea) 11.07 Died of wounds 4,068 Died of disease 3,646 Died ot accident and other causes - 1,279 Wounded in action 35,344 Missing In action (Including prisoners) .. 6,191 I Total ........ .61,604 I continued their offensive movement today. The Americans are ahead of their schedule and are advancing slowly, deBplte heavier resistance, Paris, Nov. 2. The French at tacked east of the Alsne In the Vou zlors hrea was renewed today. Four teen hundred prisoners were taken ItltlTIHH UNIONS HAVE OVKlt 4,000,000 MEMBERS I-ondon. Nov. 2. England's la bor organizations now number, near ly 4,000,000 pei-sons, according to unofficial figures. The Blackpool labor parliament In 1917 represented 3.082.000 persons, and since that meeting was held two large organ Izations the Amalgamated Society ot Engineers, with 280,000 m,em bers, and the Workers' Union, with 200,000 have affiliated with Many smaller organizations and In creases in unions already connected with It have raised the total to.ap proximately 4,000,000, It Is estlmat HEM DEATH HARVES Say Tfcat Indulgence at Present Time With Aaslriass, y?Tbo Have Fought fik Utmost Barbarity, IrYocId be (Jraer-Retrcal ConlisnesAnarchy Rome, Nov. 2. Eighty, thousand prisoner! and. 1,600 guna have teen captured by tbe alllea. Washington, Nov. 2. On Intima tion of tbe drastic nature of the ar mistice terms submitted by General Dlas to tbe Austrlans Is given In a Rome dispatch, which says: i "Tbe Italian victory la hourly as suming such vast proportions that any kind of Indulgence toward the enemy which, up to tbe last minute his dominion, bas Insulted our brethren, devastated our lands and fought with utmost barbarity would be a crime. Conditions of an armis tice are Inspired by principles ot President Wilson, namely, to render impossible for the enemy to recom mence war, and prevent him from profiting by an armistice to with draw from a difficult military posi tion." . .. Italian Headquarters, Nov. 2. Udlne, the Italian headquarters In the Izonzo offensive, is in sight of the advancing Italian armies. Basel, Nov. 2. The committee of public safety in Trieste is alarmed by tbe sudden arrival ot the fleeing Austrian soldiers Thursday, and sent a torpedo boat to Venice to ask the commander ot the allied fleet in the Adriatic to occupy Trieste. The request was granted. Rome, Nov. 2. The Austrlans are fleeing from Udlne, 60 miles east of the Piave river, and have abandon ed great quantities ot war material. E Oregon City, Nov. 2. Sheriffs and tax-collectors all over Oregon are aroused over the possibility ot the enactment ot the tax measures submitted to the voters by C. S. Jackson, ot Portland, and appearing on the ballot as 30S Yes and 309 No. Sheriff Cellately, of Benton, county, and Sheriff iBodlne, of Linn county, made strong statements this week denouncing the measure as imprac ticable and dangerous and W. "V, Everhart, for the last two years as- sessor for Clackamas county, maae the following statement concerning the. proposed measure: "Notice to the public through the newspapers Is a protection to tbe owners ot tbe property. It Is bad business tor a county to sell a man's property for taxes without a public notice, which can be obtained only by 'publication. There Is no merit in sending the delinquent taxpayer notice by mall, .for we have that provision In the present law, and It does not get the money tor the county. What the county needs and must have, Is the tax money, and the publication method gets it, as no other method will, tor in many cases under the present law, the de linquent will pay up his taxes rather than have his name appear in print. , "The-publication ot the delinquent tax list does not cost the man who pays his taxes a red cent, as the cost ot publication Is' assessed against the property upon which, taxes have he come delinquent and the publication vi, -k rn Amsterdam, Nov. 2. A state ot anarchy prevails throughout Turkey, It Is reported. Although tbe new smashes ot the British, French and Americans in Belgium and France ' have been markedly successful toward ridding French and Belgian soil of the in vaders, It Is' still the Italian theater on which the eyea of the world are centered. Internal strife In Germany and Austro-Hungary and continued pleadings from the dual monarchy for an armistice and a cessation ot hostilities have received scant no tice when compared with the Impres sion that the wonderful drive ofthe Italians and their allies against the Austro-Hungartans has made upon the world at large. Everywhere the enemy is being defeated In Italy. In the Alpine re gion, where the natural barriers had acted as bastions of defense, the enemy line has been broken at sal- lent points and the toe compelled to retreat to further mountain strong holds. On the plains the retrograde movement toward the Tagllamento river Is virtually a complete rout. with allied airplanes violently at tacking with machine guns the throngs of the enemy hurrying east ward, with the cavalry cutting to pieces the stragglers and the Infan try and machine gunners taking heavy toll in killed and wounded. Oreat numbers of tbe Austro-Hun-garlans still continue to he win nowed back of the line to the prison cages. Large quantities of stores are still falling Into the hands of the entente forces and numerous ad' dltlonal towns are being liberated. I fee Is collected along with the inter lest and penalty. If a mall notice law should be enacted, then the tax payer who does' not pay his taxes will be assessed for the expense. "I have been tax-collector of Clackamas county several years and my experience tells me that people should vote No on this measure next Tuesday." CHANGE IN GERMANS NOT REAL, DECLARES CECIL London, Nov. 2. Lord 'Robert Ce- ell, speaking in the house of com. mons, declared that the power ot the bundesrath In Germany has not been modified by the constitutional changes now being made. "It does not appear that there has been any proposal to alter the posi tion of the secretaries ot state," be added. "They remain, I 'understand, subordinate to the imperial chancel lor and are appointed by the emper or. They are liable -to be dismissed by the emperor, presumably exercis ing those powers on the recommen dation ot the imperial chancellor, al though this does not seem to be spe cifically provided for." Lord Cecil's statement was In re ply to a question asking him to ex plain the effects of -the constitution al changes now being made in the government of Germany." 4 ALUERS IS INDICTED 4 ON SEVEN COUNTS 4 ' Portland, Nov. 2. J. Henry 4 Albers was Indicted today by the federal grand Jury oh seven 4 counts for violating the esplon- 4 age act. -- --'4 4444444444444444 London, Nor. 2. The Bavarian premier has notified Berlin that the Bavarian royal family claims the Imperial throne, in the event of Em peror Wilhelm's abdication, accord ing to the Leipzig socialist paper.- Paris, Nor. 2. Emperor Wllhelm Is persisting In his refusal to abdi cate, it is reported. He took refuge at German grand headquarters im mediately after the meeting of the war cabinet. CHARGED WITH CRIME AGAINST STEPDAUGHTER Walter Langford, who resides about four miles north ot Wilbur wa today arraigned before justice ot the Peace I. B. 'Riddle, and charg ed with the crime ot statutory rape, against his thirteen year old step daughter, Leona NeaL The prellml nary hearing was set tor tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock. C. L. Hamil ton has been retained as attorney for the plaintiff. ' Langford was placed under $2,500 trends, which be was unable to furnish, and was then placed In the county Jail. Roseburg News. 44444444444444444 4 ITALIANS DESTROY AUSTRIAN FLAGSHIP 4 . ( i . -, , Washington, Nov. 2. A Rome dispatch states that the Austrian superdreadnaught and 4 flagship, Veribus Units, has been destroyed in tbe harbor of Pola by Italian naval forces. 4 VD UUSTtSAYiTUESDAY WHETHER AVE T UilCOilDITIOllAL S i Smarting under the criticisms of his first temporizing- note to - Ger many and speaking through the dem ocratic senator from Nevada, Presi dent Wilson issued on October 10 an unmistakable challenge .to his polit ical opponents. ' "The test In the coming election," Senator Plttman declared, "Is Inevit able between the policies ot. Wood row Wilson and the policies ot Henry Cabot Lodge." The policies Indicated did not per tain to the conduct of the war. With respect to that, the two leaders ot their respective parties were and had been from the beginning in full accord. They related exclusively to the settlement of the war. There the line was drawn sharply and dis tinctly and there It remains, mark ing the cleavage ot the two parties between whose purposes the country must make a choice at the polls next Tuesday. The republican positions is plain. It was declared with rare definite- ness, In the resolution introduced by Senator Lodge, in these words: "Resolved, That it is the sense of the senate that there should be no further communication with the Ger man government upon the . subject of an armistice or conditions ot peace, except a demand for uncon ditional surrender." ! The democratic attitude is equal ly clear. It is embodied In the fol lowing resolution Introduced by Sen ator J. Hamilton Lewis: - Resolved, That the United States senate - approves wnatever course may be taken by the president of the United States In the matter ot his replies and In his dealings with the German imperial government " and the Austrian imperial government POPULATION OP . GERMAN AUS TRIA REJECT HIM BECAUSE OF RECENT NOTE TO U. 8. ( AUSTBIM CREW IK MUTINY Prenrr Says He Was Empowered to Hand Over Government to the " German State Council Amsterdam, Nor. 2. A resolution will he Introduced in the national assembly, according to a Vienna dis patch, banishing Count Andrassy from the territory of German Aus tria, on account or his note to Pres ident Wilson. - The resolution will say that he was "Illegally appointed by the former Austrian . Emperor Charles." Amsterdam,.. , Nor,. 2. Professor Lammasch, lAustrlan premier, , has informed the president of the state council that he has been empowered to hand over the government so far' as related to German, localities, to the German-Austrian state council. , London, Nor. 2. Members of the entire Austrian -fleet at Pola hare: mutinied.' ' With the Americans in France, Nor. 2. The Austrlans on the Ger man front in the Woerre region are entraining tor Austria, it is reported. London, Nor. 2. Count Julius Andrassy has resigned as . Austro Hungarian minister, according to a Zurich dispatch. 1 . and the allies ot either or both, in response to the demand of either for peace or armistice." The one demands a peace to be dictated by the allies. The other ap proves in advance a peace to be ne gotiated by the president The republican party stands squarely, as a unit, for unconditional surrender. Every republican sena tor, every republican representative, every republican governor, both re publican ex-presidents, the republi can chairman and all republican public journals are committed ab- solutely to enforcement of that re quirement upon the enemy as a pre liminary to cessation of hostilities. They would notify Germany to that effect and would refuse thereafter to consider any alternative proposi tion. The democratic party, also as a unit. Is opposed to Imposing uncon ditional surrender upon the enemy. Neither the president nor any dem ocratic senator or representative, nor any democratic governor nor the democratic chairman nor any dem ocratic newspapers has urged the ex action of that condition. Negotia tions have already been begun by the president with the declared ap proval ot the democratic congress. The country, on Tuesday, Novem ber 5, must notify the world wheth er it does or does not stand tor un conditional surrender. It it elects a republican congress, our allies and the enemy will know that it does. If it returns a democratic majority, our "associates", and the "German people" will learn that it does not. There Is no mistaking the ' issue. There is no avoiding the conclusion. There Is no middle ground. North American (Review's War Weekly. JRRENDER