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A shell explosion on tho U. S. S. Von
Sheubcn, which killed three men, was
announced late Thursday by tho Navy
department. The shell exploded while
being fired.
Captain Archibald Roosevelt, eon of
Theodore Roosevelt, has been wounded
in action with tho American forces in
France, according to a cablegram that
was received Thursday at the colonel's
office in New York.
It is confirmed that the two Ameri
can engineers captured by brigands in
Northern Honan and held prisoner for
ransom are E. J. Pursell, of Philadel
phia or St Paul, Minn., and G. A.
Kyle, of Portland, Or.
A further extension of commercial
relations between Argentina and
France is provided for in an arrange
ment concluded by the French minister
for the purchase in Argentina of a
large amount of supplies.
Attacking over an 11-mile front on
the coastal sector in Palestine, East
Anglian, South Anglian and Indian
troops have advanced to an average
depth of three miles, according to an
official statement issued by the London
war office.
Philip Kirtland Glazebrook, Unionist
member of Parliament for South Man
chester and a major in the Cheshire
Yeomanry, has been killed in action in
Palestine. Mr. Glazebrook was born
in 1880 and waa first elected to Parlia
ment in 1912.
By a vote of 42 to 30 the Maryland
house of delegates late Thursday de
feated the bill giving the women the
right to vote at Presidential elections.
The bill giving women the right to
vote at municipal elections is expected
to share the same fate.
Young men of Jewish faith continue
to enlist in the Jewish battalion of the
British army, which is to fight for the
emancipation of Palestine from the
Turk. A second contingent of recruits
will leave New York for Canada and
thence for England March 21.
Lord Rhondda, the food controller of
England, speaking in London Thursday,
said he hoped in April to be able to
give those engaged in hard physical
labor an increased meat ration of 50
per cent and those engaged in very
hard physical labor double the ordinary
ration.
According to a dispatch from Zurich,
the German Socialist newspaper Vor
waerts says the scandal in Germany
connected with graft at the Daimler
munitions factory, which the budget
committee of the Reichstag is investi
gating, has caused a veritable panic in
the Berlin stock exchange.
A member of the Mexican bandit
gang which raided the East ranch near
Laredo, Texas, last Thursday night,
was captured by Mexican authorities
near Guerrero, opposite Zapata, and
confessed, declaring that all the ban
dits were Mexicans, organized and
equipped on the American side of the
Rio Grande.
The American forces northwest of
Toul carried out an important raid on
the German lines Monday night. The
artillery preparation lasted 45 min
utes, and the Americans entered the
German defenses as far as the second
line. They found a number of Ger
man dead' from shell fire and some of
those who were retreating were shot
down.
Billy Sunday, the evangelist, said
Tuesday that as soon as his Chicago
engagement is completed, he will go
to France to visit the trenches.
China, in response to an inquiry
from Tokio, has signified her intention
to co-operate with Japan in the protec
tion of allied interests In the Far East.
Captain William Redmond has be
come a candidate for the parliamen
tary seat from Waterford, made vacant
by the death of his father, John Red
mand, the Nationalist leader. He is
opposed by Dr. White, Sinn Feiner.
The Weser Zeitung, of Bremen, says
the majority parties of tho reichstag
intend to insist upon complete clear
ness regarding the status of the for
mer Russian border states before rati
fication of the peace treaty with Rub-sia.
SO0.00O to Join Colors This Year; 93,-
000 to Ik Called Beginning Mar,
29 Equipment is Heady.
Washington, D. C. Eight hundred
thousand men are to bo called to tho
colore gradually during tho present
year, under tho second army draft,
which begins on March 29.
An announcement Wednesday by
Provost Marshal General Crowder of
tho numhor to be called, was followed
closely by an order for tho mobiliza
tion of 95,000 men during tho five-day
period beginning March 29, somo 15,
000 of them to bo assembled under tho
second draft.
Eighty thousand will bo men of tho
first draft of 687,000 not yet sum
moned into service.
Details of how the second draft is
to be applied, will bo made public
later, after congress has acted upon
proposed legislation providing for tho
registration of youths and for hosing
stato and district quotas on tho num
ber of registrants in class 1.
In his first official statement on tho
subject, however, General Crowder as
sures tho country that no sweeping
withdrawal of larger numbers of men
at one time is contemplated, and that
care will bo taken to avoid 'interfer
ence with harvesting.
Tho 95,000 now called, it is under
stood, are needed at once to fill up
other divisions or units scheduled for
early departure, or to take the placo of
men transferred from other divisions
to make up such deficiencies.
Newly organized regular divisions
are particularly short of men and
heavy drafts on National army divis
ions to make these good have been
necessary, seriously interfering with
training work of the National army
divisions drawn upon.
The call for tho new men makes it
probable that no further transfers will
be necessary.
The 800,000 men summoned this
year represent the number necessary
to fill up all existing divisions, to
create all tho army corps and field
army troops to fill out the war ma
chine for which tho framewprk already
exists, and to provide a quarter of a
million replacement troops.
When they have been mobilized,
which will not be completed before the
first of next year, there will be more
than 40 full infantry divisions of 27,
700 men each, and all the additional
units necessary.
The first purpose of the War depart
ment is to complete the first field army
in France. Probably this will be com
posed of five army corps of six in
fantry divisions each. It has been es
timated that with that force and its
necessary auxiliaries at his disposal
General Pershing would bo able to hold
a 100-mile sector of the battle front,
relieving the strain upon French man
power during 1918 to that extent.
What that would mean to France
may be judged from published state
ments of French officials that on Jan
uary 1, 1918, the Belgian army held
about 15 miles of the Western front,
the British forces about 105 miles and
the French about 350 miles.
The apportionment of Northwestern
states is: Washington, 638 men; Pre
gon, 3C9; Idaho, 242; California, 1745;
Montana, 521.
The War department is prepared to
supply clothing and other equipment
immediately for all the men to be
called out.
U. S. MAY EXTEND CONTROL
Express Companies Will Probably be
Taken Over by Government.
Washington, D. C. Government
control probably will be extended
shortly to the leading express compan
ies, it was officially intimated Wednes
day at the Railroad administration,
The companies that would be affected
are the Adams, American, Wells-rar
go, Southern, Great Northern, North,
em. Canadian and Western.
Most exnress companies' earnings
last year were far below the record of
the year before, and some, notably the
Adams, recorded an actual deficit in
the latter months. Government opcr
ation and compensation on tho basis of
the average earnings for the last three
years is souirht by most companies.
Some decision probably will be reached
within 10 days.
Russian Crews Gone.
London The whole Russian Baltic
fleet is lying at Helslngfors, Finland,
the Petrograd correspondent of the
Times cables, but the crews have melt
ed away, only a watch being left each
ship. The dreadnoughts will soon sail
for Kronstadt, but tho remainder of
the fleet will remain In Finland. Tho
correspondent also says that all mova
ble articles from the cruisers Aurora
and Diana, lying in the Neva river,
have been carried away by sailors.
ion Tonnage Available in
All Parts of the World.
HOLLAND TO BE PAID
Besides Compensation U. S. Will Per
mit Export of Brcadstuffs Which
Holland Sorely Needs.
Washington. D. C A million tons
of Dutch ships, now hold in ports tho
world over, through Holland a fear or
Germany's threat to sink them if they
venture out. will bo brought into tho
service of tho United States and Great
Britain on March 18.
Unless tho Ncthcrland government
braves tho menace of Germany's pres
sure and voluntarily accepts an agree
ment under which the ships would bo
put in trodo, tho United States and
Great Britain will take them over un
der international law, availing them
selves of a sovereign right which Ger
many herself has hitherto exercised
under the same authority.
Formal notice has been presented to
Tho Hague by tho American and Brit
ish diplomatic representatives of tho
allied governments' intention. As a
result, Saturday, tho Netherlands min
ister, August Phillips, acting under in
structions of his government, mada a
final personal appeal to President Wil
son at least to modify the decision.
Tho Associated Press is ablo to suy
that tho President saw no reason for
altering tho decision, and that unless
the ships are turned over Monday a
Presidential proclamation will be is
sued taking over tho ships in Ameri
can ports, of which thoro are about 80.
Many more, however, aro in British or
other allied ports.
From tho American official point of
view, the action is ono into which tho
allied governments have bcon forced
by the German duress of Holland,
which may now see her ships in trade
again, and can point out to Germany
that they were taken through no will
of her own.
Coming at a time when tho dire
need of the allied cause is for ships,
this acquisition of a million tons is of
tremendous Importance.
Every arrangement has been mado
for the compensation of tho Nether
lands for tho ships.
They will be insured and armed, and
if any be lost they will bo replaced.
Besides material compensaion for their
use, the United States will permit the
export of breadstuffs and cattle foods,
which Holland needs sorely for her
own people, and in addition will re
store the interrupted trudo of Holland
with her colonies by guaranteeing
bunkers for her ships in that trade.
By this arrangement, officials point
out, further responsibility for food
shoratge in The Netherlands, if there
be one, will rest on Germany.
CONGRESS TO SIT IN COUNCIL
War Department Invites Legislators to
Keep In Touch With Fighting.
Washington, D. C The administra
tion formally embarked Saturday on a
policy of taking congress completely
into its confidence as to the progress
of war preparations and developments
on the fighting front in Europe.
At the invitation of Acting Secre
tary Crowell, members of tho senate
military committee were in session at
tho War department for nearly two
hours with the full membership of tho
War Council, and beginning next week
will meet with that body every Satur
day morning.
Members of the house committco
will meet with the council and a simi
lar arrangement for weekly meetings
will be mado with that committee.
Probably a largo room will bo obtained
later bo that the committees of both
houses may bo received in joint ses
sion. ,
Thus tho War department meets tho
insistent demand of congress for a
greater share in the conduct of tho
war and removes the real cause which
led the senate committee's prolonged
investigation of the army with its at
tendant bitter criticism.
Ukraine Grain Divided.
Washington, D. C According to an
official dispatch received from Copen
hagen Friday and quoting from tho
National Tidende, Germany and Aus
tria will divido equally until July 31
the amount of grain available in Uk
raine, During tho earlier portion of this
period Austria will have two-thirds
and Germany one-third of all grain
obtained. During the second half tho
proportions will bo reversed.
Say Standardized Program Nec
essary Plenty of Lumber.
Washington, D. C Oregon and
Washington can furnish between 400
and 600 wooden hlps n yenr, witnesses
from tho Pacific Coast told the senate
committee, If tho Emergency Fleet
Corporation would furnish tho lumber
men with a standardized program.
Fears of tho Shipping Hoard that
tho lumber supply In tho Northwest Is
inadequate were declared unfounded.
11. B. Van Dusen, of Oregon, de
clared tho mills in his stato had not
reached thoir maximum capacity and
said production of wooden ships on tho
West Coast could bo nccolorated, Ho
praised tho loyalty of Oregon lumber
ing men and asserted that there Is no
necessity for tho commandeering of
timber.
Tho car situation in that state, ho
said, was very bad, and he knew of
several mills that will bu compelled to
closo unless the situation Improves.
J. H. Hloedel, of Seattle, chairman of
tho fir production board, said he had
just completed a survey of tho lumber
supply In Washington and had submit
ted tho Information to tho Shipping
Hoard. Ho said there must be a
standardized schedulu for ship timber,
but believed ono would shortly bo pre
pared. Sawmills in Washington, Mr. Blou
del said, have umplu capacity to pro
duce what timber tho government
needs for ships.
A law authorizing tho government
to commandeer timber wuh favored by
I. N. Day, of Portland. He explained
he did not think Buch powers wero now
necessary, but bclluved the govern
ment should bo in Ksitlon to taku such
action. Mr. Day opiwscd extending
this power so as to enable tho govern
ment to take over and operate saw
mills, at least at prcsont.
WATCH OUT FOR WAR RUMORS
Administration Asks People to Avoid
Repeating Stories.
Finding that Northwest communities
are being fed up on falsehoods of vnr
ious kinds, that tho people hero as
elsewhere are repeating these stories
for truth and aro thus creating a mor
ale that is injurious to tho causo which
brought tho United States to declare
war on Germany, tho administration at
Washington Ib asking tho peoplo of
this state to refrain from passing judg
ment on tho way tho war Is being won,
or from saying and doing things that
will destroy confidence.
A favorite story is to the effect that
food and supplies gathered and sent
forward to soldiers are being divert'
cd; that articles are being sold and tho
money not accounted for. All such
statements may be branded as false.
In Portland more than 20 such rumors
have been traced down and found to bo
unfounded.
They wero probably started by Ger
man agents.
All wnr news will be given out at
Washington.
U. S. SOLDIERS AID IN RAIDS
Penetrate German Position to Depth
of 600 Yards.
With tho American Army in Frnnce,
Sunday American troops, co-opernt
ing with tho French, have carried out
three raids opposite tho American sec
tor in Lorraine. Two of tho raids
wero executed simultaneously Sunday
night.
Tho Americans swept past tho Ger
man first lino and penetrated to tho
enemy's second line, 600 ynrds back.
Tho two simultaneous raids, ono
northwest and ono northeast of
(deleted), wero mado after intense ar
tillery preparation lasting for four
hours, in which tho German positions
were leveled. At midnight two forces,
each ono of (deleted), with small
French forces on their flanks, moved
upon tho German objectives behind a
creeping barrage, each on a front of
600 yards. When tho AmericanB
reached tho enemy first lines tho bar
rage was lifted bo as to box in tho Ger
man positions at both points.
Tho men dropped into tho enemy's
trenches, expecting a hand-to-hand
fight, but found tho Germans had fled.
Continuing tho advanco, thoy went
forward 600 yards to tho second Ger
man line. All the tlmo American inn
chino guns were firing on each flank of
tho two parties to prevent tho enemy
undertaking Hanking operations.
Swiss Press Scores Huns.
Geneva Physical reprisals against
Germany aro unanimously demanded
by tho allied portion of the SwIbs
press for the sinking of tho steamer
Sardlnero, with 3855 tons of cereals
destined for Switzerland. It has de
manded that tho Swiss government
shall not send tho usual harmless noto
of protest to Germany, but will order
a 50 per cent diminution In tho bread
rations granted tho German colony in
Switzerland, numbering 230,000.
Germans Announce Capture of
4th Largest City in Russia.
MISSION IS TRAPPED
Allied Diplomats Are Sulci to Have
Gone to Menaced City-Held in
Quarantine Without Cause.
While tho entente allies are "nib
bling" at tho German lines from tho
North Sea to Switzerland, but aro
making llttlo or no serious attempts to
break through or to bring about a cul
minating struggle, tho Teutonic low
ers have taken another step In tho ex
ploitation of tho Last.
Tho advance guards of tho Gurmims
have entered Odessa, tho greatest Jtus-
slan port on tho Black Sea and tliu
center of a great agricultural section,
tho products of which are desired to
feed tho hungry peoples of tho central
empires.
Tho German advanco through Mol
davia and Bessarabia has been virtual
ly unop(oscd. With Odessa safely In
their hands tho Teutons will have ac
cess to vast stores of wheat which can
bo transported overland or by sea to
points where It can readily be nhippeci
Into Austria and Germany.
But thu capture of Odessa will mean
something more an advance over tho
route to Persia and Afghanistan and
possibly India, which is to be followed
now that the British have severed the
famous Herlin-and-Bagdnd route to the
East.
Tho congress of Russian Soviets,
which was to have convened at Moscow
on Tuesday, postponed its meeting.
This gathering may bo historic, as It
will bo asked to rutlfy or reject the
peace forced Ukii tho Bolshevik peace
delegates by tho Germaus at Brest
Litovsk. When tho congress meets it Is prob
able that thu message of I'resldeut
Wilson to the Russian peoplo will be
read. It is expected to make a pro
found impression upon the assembly.
Berlin, via London German troops
have entered Odessa. This oIlHrul an
nouncement was made Wednesday
night.
Odessa, tho most important seaport
of Southern Russia and the fourth city
of Russia in opulat!on, was founded
by Catherine II in 1791.
Its population numbers about -ICO,-000,
nearly one-third of whom are
Jews. Normally there wero several
thousand German residents.
Among many other Importnal insti
tutions it contains tho imperial now
Russian unlvursity, founded in 1865.
Washington, D. C. Members of
tho American and allied special mis
sions to Roumauia have left J ussy for
Odessa under assurances of safe con
duct from tho king of Roumania. Thoy
had been held for quarantine.
Word regarding tho missions ciuno
from Minister Voplcka, at Jassy, who
said the Austrian authorities had at
tempted to hold thu missions for 30
days. An investigation by members
of the missions indicated there was no
sanitary reason for their detention and
protests were mado which convinced
tho Roumanian government that somo
assistance should bo given and provis
ion mado for thorn to leave immediate
ly. Flics First Liberty Seaplane.
Washington, p. C America's first
fighting Bcapluno equipped with Liber
ty motors ha? boon tried out and ac
cepted, it was leurncd Thursday, and
a number of tho craft aro now being
delivered for tho uso of tho naval air
service. They aro tho advance guard
of a big fleet which will bo udded to
tho forces engaged in Hubrnarino hunt
ing In tho war zono.
A second typo of fighting piano for
tho American army, known as tho
Bristol model, also has now reached
tho production Btago and a considera
ble numbor will becomo available dur
ing tho present month. Still another
typo, a two.seated muchino, is being
manufactured.
Ship Sticks at Launching.
Seattle, Wash. After bolng christ
ened Culburru, tho second fhlp to bo
launched from tho Sloan Shlpyurdfl.
Corporation plant, tho vossol failed to
complete its journey down tho ways
Wednesday and it will bo launched la
ter. Miss Floronco Lister, daughter
of tho governor of Washington, broko
a bottlo over tho prow and tho craft,
moved about a foot and then stuck.
All efforts to movo It further proved
futilo.