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f ,J" -r- v ? "$ns nr '" -T T 17 1 ,t . Mfjww Mlslcirm 9.0" ShcoiuI Street Medford Mail Tribune SECOND EDITION WEATHER Mav. Nil; Mln. OUl Fair (.' night Anl tomorrow, rortr-fourlh Tor, TnyNlnlll Yr MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, MARCH 22, 1915 NO. 310 X J ; . y DANS TAKE GREAT FORTRESS OF PRZEMYSL Austria's Strmiuholil in Gallcla Cap Itulatcs After Heroic Deefnsc Since Bcijlnnlnu of WarStarva tion Causes Fall When Last Sortie Falls ami 6000 Taken Prisoners. I'ETHOOHAD, March UJ. It wiih niiiitiuuccd officially lliix morning Hint the Onlieian fortress of Prim- iii.vhI Hiirri'iiiU'it'il tu tlm llussiunN to llllV. A Tu Ileum "f tlinkMKiviii(r wiih eelchrnlcil lit tlm Russian army hend iniiirlcrs when tlm full of l'rr.iMiiVHl wim niiHoiiiii'ril, tlu eiiu'inony lining pniticipatcd In liy Emperor NirlioliiH, Grand Dnko Nicholas timl tho mem bers of llio general ftaff. Tin ginil Oaliciiin fititri'iM of l'lemysl, which tlm Auslmiii linil ho xtaiinitlily defended sinco tin I'uily ilayH of tin' war. fi'll into tliu hands of tlm Russian Integers this morn ing. Tin) lust of tlm improvUcil field foitificntiiuis were captured muiic day ngu ami tlm final act of tlm ilra 111a began toward tlm clone of tlm week, when tlm I'oiiimniiiliial delibor ati'ly expended It i h iiihvi nmmiiiii tiiui anil hi'iit tlu bulk of tlm unrriion oat on tlm forlorn hope of cutting it" way cnntwiird through tlm besiegers. Koitle- Arc IYultle- With tlm htroug Rmsiiin liim tight iy drawn arotiiii! tin' fortri'NN, tlm ef fort apparently was hopclcus from tlio ftnrt, anil 0000 Austrian prioii 111 h fell into tlm hands of tlm Ru himw, whiht iih iiiiinv morn roil dead or wounded, The hhuttcrcd rcmuuntH of tlm ilooil fled hunk to tlm fort tons mill tlmv now hnvu fallen into tlm liitiiilx of tlm Russians. The garrison of PrzumyMl m initially numhereil (10,0111) or HO.OIIO lint the Mirtii'H ami idiclU miiihI liave rut it cuiiMili'iiihlo number of thousand from that total. Tlie besieging nmiv is unilerhlooil to number about 120.0110 officers ami men. Tim force will now march on tlm Htroug Austrian finite at Crn row, I'J.'i miles to I he en hi of l'rr inyxl. it being tlm miiioiiiu't'il deter- iiiinatioit of the ItiiHxIan enmmniulor- in-chief to reduce tlm oh 1'olihli fort ri'hH iih upcrilily iik possible. A I'nitrnrtiil Hlegn Tlm siege of Prcmysl Iiiih been nu ili'i' way since, the early days of the war. It Iiiih been a hitter ami relent lehH sicgo, which lias never heeii re laxed for a ilav since tlm It hhhiiiuh invented the city. Several utteniitH of tlm Austrian to uiImi tlm slcgo faileil. With the fall of Przem.Vhli whieli Iiiih heen ileM'iiheil an the key to the Austrian empire, tlm only impoitmit fortified town in (lalieiu which is Mill in tlm hamli of tlm Austrian in Cracow, in tlm notlhwcMcrii part of llm province, close to tlm (lenaan lionler. In tlm early days of the war It wuh pail of tlm plan of tlm ItiiHhiau of IViihivo cmiipaiKn to invmld (leriaany HiioiiIi (lalieia. The lliiHhians pone Iraleil (lalieia, lint tlm HiK-rens of tlm AiiHtrJaiiH in lioldintr l'r.oinysl ami Cracow hlocked atteiuptH to invadii (lunifiuiy neiosH tlm Silortinn honloi', I'uinlao 'aiiM'H Kail Tlm AiiHlrian jriirrixnii of I'rzeinj'nl Mefemlud tlm city with deterniinatiun mill iliiiini; tlm cnrllot' niontliH inl'lii't cil coiiHiileralilu Iohkuh on tlm Itus himiH hy i'iiiuviit Hortien, Tho only ineaim of immmunimition witli Hid ouIhIiIo world wiih hy wireless tolii Kiaphy and acniplanos. All Hiippliuri of food wero taken over hy tlm iiiiiiv official, who in (dontliiuod on ouro fotiTTT E ST. JOHNS, N. P., Mnroh 22. Wireless reports rocelvod today from tho sealing Hoots ludlcato thnt tho outlook for tho Benson Is unfavorable, Tho eight Btonmors of the custom fleet after working through tho lec tor somo 250 miles up tho eastorn coast of Now Koundlnnd nro now Jammed In tho heavy floos of Cnpo St, John, about 12S miles south of tho entrauco to tho straits of Hello IbIo, - GEIS FOUR YEARS FOR WEED MILL FIRE f 4- HAN IMtANCIHCO, Mnri'h 22. lliiriilmiii I.. Coo, n l7-'i"r old hoy who plcmlml Kiillty to o chnrRU of iinIiik tlm iniilln to da- fraud mid admitted rcnpottnllitl- lly for tlm Weed l.innlmr coin- puny flro nt Weed, Cnl... Marc'i 4, which entiMed n Iohi iki hunted nt 1100,'iOd, wiih Hi'iitencud to- duy to four yenm In tho Idaho 4- Intililnrlnl Trnlnlmc vchool at Kt. ' Aiitlinny, Idaho, In tliu United Htiitrn illntrlct court. Coo do- inamled IS.fiOO from C. K. Kv- iiiih nt Wdi'd under threat of Htartlnt; more flreii there. L HALTED BY ORDER OP IHE PRESIDENT WASHINGTON', March 'JJ.-TIm HuiiihiirK'Atm-iicmi liner Odenwald htiiDtird from leaving San .liiati, l'orto llirii, yesterday hy hholn acroni lier how, N lieiut; held pmler tlm recent cjMiKrc.HHJounl reHolutiou ciiixivcrinj,' the president to prevent HiipplioH e,o in from Ainerican portn loxhhipn of the Kuropenii lit'lliucri'tils at sea. Secretary (larrihou in making n thorough invchtiKatiou of the Odea wuld'H case in connection with trcas ttry department official mid the whitn Iioiikc. Under the rcnoliiiiou, the president wiih nulhorired "to ilhect colleclnrH of ciistouiH under tlm jurisdiction of tho raited Staten to withhold dear- anecH from any vchm1, American or fiircmu, which Im Iiiih reasonable cmiHu to helmve to he nliout to carry fuel, anus-, amimiuitiou, men or sup plies to any waVship or tender, or supply ship of a helliereut nation, m violation of tlm ohlipilion of the I'll it fil Stairs as a neutral nation." FPU IHE E l'AltlS, March 2'J. Tho offlclnl statement kIvdu out by tho French war nfdeo nyn: "To tho north of ArraH nt Notro Daiuo Do Korottv, u CJerniun counter attack on Saturday ovenlnR deprived us of Home Hectlomi of tronchea. "At La llolaullo, northeast of At bort, lulito wnrfnra continues. After hnvliiK blown up ono of tho enemy's Kallorles, wo occuplod tho groator part of tho pit formed. "During Hundny Hholms rocolved about fifty shells. "In the. ArKonno wo Inflicted two sorlotiH reverses on tho enemy, Near IlitKittollu wo 1ilow up three mines and two companies of our troops stormed a (liirmnn trench In which thoy maintained tholr posltlous dos plto HtroiiK counter nttneka, Klvo hundred yards from there tho enemy, utter oxplodlnK two mines and bout bardliiK nur tronchos, rushed to at tack on u front of about 250 yards. SAN l-'KANCISCO, Mnroh 22. Viee-l'resident Thomas It. Marshall, representing President Wilson, offie iully greeted offioinls of tho l'an-nma-l'aeifio exposition, foreign eom missionerH and other dignitaries nt tho official reecptlon at tho Califor nia building today. Tlm vice-president was tho guest of honor at an official luncheon at tho California building today and will attend a dinner given him hy tlm wo men's board of the exposition tonight. HAMBURG FRENCH REPORT NG NN VICE-PRE DENT IS EXPOSITION EQUAL LIBERTY IDEAL OF ALLIES European Conference Would Have Avoided War, But Kaiser Refused and Bears Sole Responsibility Fourth Time Prussia Has Made War Upon Europe to Be Lost. LONDON, March '2. "War miht hnve been avoided by a Kuropean Konfcrence when ami tflicrc (Jennauy desired," I-Wciu Secretary Sir l'd wnrd Oroy told an auilicuce in Lou don this afternoon. At llm timo he wiin acting iih fliairtmiti of a atliur iiiK which was listening to a lecture on the htrati'Ky of the war. The for eign secretary said: "Ounniiiiy, after her exporietiee in tho I tn I kali conference, knew she could count on our ood will and that we were ready to do last July what we did before. Hut Oenaanv refiin ed every Hiineition, and on her resin for nil time the appalling rcsponsibiU ity for the war. We now know thnt (Icnnnny had nrcpared for the war, and only those who luivn planned for war can prepare for it." Amid loud checra Sir lMwanl udded : "This in the foutth time within liv ing memory that Prussia linn mnde war upon Kuropc, nnd we are deter mined it shall he the Inst." Knsy for n Cnfcrcnco "Tho expenditure of hundred of million of money and the Iosk of mil lions of lives mipltt have been avoid ed Ity a conference or the Kurocan powenj held in Ixnidou or nt'The IliiKUi?, tv wherever anil frT'wmttevcr form Oeniiany would have consented to hold it. It would have hern far easier to have nettled the dispjite he tween AuHtnu-Hunjjnry and Serbin, which Oonnnuy mnde the occtiHion for the war, than it wuh to pet micccsh- fully through tho llalkan erism of two yeurH ngo. "In recent yeam," the foreign pcc retary went on to say, "we have pvcu Germany every assurance that any nnurcssive movement upon her part would receive no Htipport from us-. Wo withheld from her only one thing the unconditional promiso to stand aside, however aggressive Ger many herself might ho to her neigh bor. Itcfiisvil Kvery HiiKKcstlon "Last July, before the outbreak of the war, France, Italy and Russia were ready to accept a conferencee. (lennnny refused every suggestion inadu for settling the dispute in this way, and on her must rest now and for all timu the appalling responsibil ity of having plunged Kuropc into this war." Asking "What is tlm issue for which wo nro fighting!" Sir Eilwuru proceeded iih follews: "In duo time terms of peaeo w$ bo put forward by the allies, One essential condition must be the res toration of Uelgium to her iudccnd cut national life and free possession of her territory. The great issue is this; We wish the nations of Kuropo to ho free and to live their indepen dent lives, working out their own form of govornjnent and their own form of national development in full lihorty, whether they ho great states or Hiuull states. Thnt is our ideal. TIio (icnnan Superman "Tho German ideal is thnt the Gor man? "'" " superior people tu whom all thiiigH are lawful nnd ngaiust whom resistance is unlawful, and (Continued on page four). NAVAL RESERVE WASHINGTON, March 22. Or- ganizntiou of tho new naval reserve nuthomed nt tho last session of con gress has just been begun by tho navy department, which is sending out eir eulnr letters to former enlisted men in tin effort to induce them to cuter tho reserve. It is roughly estimated that there nro about fiO.OOO former enlisted men who nro eligible, for re-enlistment as reservists, ORGANIZING NEW ITALY STOPS ALL RAM TRAFFIC TO GERMAN POINTS i LONDON, March 22, 5:50 p. in. Tho Central Nows states 4- that tho Italian government to 4 day stopped all railway freight traffic with Germany by way of Switzerland. . GENERAL SCOTT DKXVKIt, March 22.-Hngadier-General Hugh L. Scott was on the way to Salt Lake City today with four leaders of the recalcitrant Piute Indians' who had eluded capture by a federul posse for several weeks, ac cording to n mcsHuge from Illuff, Utah. General Scott'H prisoner are Tse-Nce-Ont, Old I'olk, Chif I'oscy and the lnttcr'8 son. The troublo which General Scott settled single-handed grew out of nu attempt by United States Marshal Aipiila Ntbeker to arrest the Indian, Tse-Nc-Gnt' on n charge of murder ing Juan Clin on. a Mexican sheep herder. A number of braves joined with Tce-Ne-Gut Hnd Old I'olk to pre vent the former'H arrest, and subse fpicutly were joined by Chief Posey's band. Joseph Okin was killed nnd Joe Cordova wounded in a battle with the Indians ocbrunrv 21. Both were members of-jhc uohso. Two In- dintiH werii killed and ix. captured. Knrly in Marcli General Scott left Washington on n pence mission. Ill- left the railroad in eastern Utah, made an overland trip of more than a hundred miles over rugged snow covered rands nnd reached Illuff nbout ten days ngo. Scott immedi ately endeavored to establish com munication with the recalcitrant Pi ntes, who were enoamiwd in n strong moiiutnin position. Word of his suc cess came Saturday night on his ar rival at Illuff with theo four Indian laders. "LI CONSTANTINOPLE, March 22. Lieoutnnnt-Commumlor William P. Pricker of tho United Stales convert ed yacht Scorpion, 'and three suitors named Ford, Howell nnd I.eevrings, were drowned Mareh 20 while at tempting to reach tho vessel with n rowbout. Tho Scorpion was anchored in tho ltosphorus off Constantinople near the Dolunbngheheh palace. Tho rowboat was swamped in a heavy sea. Lieutenant Herbert S. Ilubbit nnd ono snilor, who were in the hont, were saved. Lieutenant Commander Pricker ar rived nt Constantinople only on March 10 to succeed Lieutenant Commander MoCanloy, Jr., in com mand of the Scorpion. T WASHINGTON, Mnrch 22. For mal -announcement was mndo at the whtto houso today that at present, President Wilson has no intontlon of calling nu extra session of tho senate or congress bofore tho beginning of tho regular session next Dccomuor. It was said that tho president sees no prospects of any contingency aris ing which would causo lilm to altor his present Intention. Several senators had suggested that tho prosldont call a special session of tho sonato In Octooor to consider rat ification of tho Colombian and Klca raguan treaties. Other suggestions woro that an oxtra session of con gross bo callod to take up tho ques tion of giving tho prosldont authority to doclaro an embargo on the expor tation of munitions ot war nnd food stuffs tp te belligerent nation, , SINGLE D END IAN WA AMERICAN LO NBOSPH U EXTRA SESSION AYS I VILLA'S M 10 RELEIVE POOR OF No American Forced to Contribute, and Only a Few Foreigners to Mil lion Pesos Fund to Help Starving Speculation by Merchants Sent Food Beyond Reach of Poor. WASHINGTON, Mnreh 22. Re cent events in Mexico have not chang ed President Wilson's determination not to reognizc any gmernnicnt there which is not the result of orderly elections. Various reports df efforts to induce the United States to recog nize General Villa were met nt the white house today with the statement that the pre-ident's policy wiw un changed and that he had no intention of departing from it. Villa's Explanation General Villa at Monterey has ex pluincd to the eAmrican Consul there, Secretary Pryan today uiinounced, that the purpose of his tax on for eigners nnd others wn for the relief of the destitute nnd poor. In consideration of the relief ten dered by the American Red Cross, Americans were not taxed. Only n few foreigners were taxed, some mod erately and others not at all, the gen eral explained. Villa stated thnt rnensures would be taken to keep food priccn low us possible. The city wns reported quiet. WHEAHXPORTS WASHINGTON, March 22. Warn ing that tho present heavy exports to Kuropean nations ot wheat and flour cannot bo continued without endangering tho wheat supplies for food and seeding requirements at home, was contained today In tho de partment of agriculture's "Outlook." In tho opinion ot tho department's exports, exportation at the same rate as during December, January and February until tho coming ot tho now wheat crop, would encroach upon normal domestic needs. Investigation has disclosed that on March 1 an apparent surplus of 111, 000, 000 bushels ot wheat over tho domestic requirements tor food and seed that was available, for export in tho tour mouths from March 1 to July 1. Whllo tho exports of wheat, including flour, during thoso four months last year wero 30,000,000 bushels, it Is pointed out that thoso exports during December, January and February last averaged almost 35,000,000 bushels per month, and If that rate ot export continued until tho now crop is avullablo It would amount to 140,000,000 bushels. l NF.W YOIUC, Mnreh 22. Various foreign money markets wero again very much disturbed today, exchange between New York nnd Loudon fall ing (o within tho Smallest fraction of its low record quotation of a genera tion or more which was mndo Inst month. Tho decline was, tallowed by lioavMraft'; byourjbunkerp upon tho gold holdings of tuo Hank of Eng, luml ill Otawu, $3,300,000 being taken tf'onX Jhat adureo and making a total on the return movement to this country of $18,500,000. Kxchango on Paris moved 'to its highest figures quoted since tho out break of tho war, which actually means that tho purchasing power of the French monoy in this market is smaller than at any timo within tho period mentioned. In explanation of this decline, it was behoved that tho French government or private, inter ests in that country had ma do further Uvrgo purchases of supplier hero and that ononuous amounts of French bankers' hills were pressing for sale. MONTEREY ENDANGER-SUPPLY OF UNITED STATES MONEY MARKETS MUCH DISTURBED 10 AS 8ALK.M, Ore., March 22 Tho Btnlo Highway commission. which was to have met today to appoint a successor to Stato Highway Engineer II, L. Ilowlby r postponed Its action on account or tho absence of Secretary of 4 Stato Ben V. Olcott. It was un- dcrtsood that tho commission 4- has decided on tho appointment of Herbert Nunn, of Portland, to tho office. Mr. Bowlby'a res- ignatlon was requested some 4 timo back on the ground that his administration was rot satis- factory. BY E LONDON', March 22. Simultnne otis offensive movements against thee German, Austrian nnd Turkish arm ies from the Baltic to the Black sea have been undertaken by the armies of Russia, nnd in some sections def inite progreso is reported. In Poland there is activity nil along the front, but apparently the general hittle. which Pctrogrnd expects Iuib not begun. Tho Russian umiy in the Caucasus has announced n "victory over" tho Turks in the fighting along the Black sea const, in Turkish Armenia. After severul months of inactivity, hostilities hnve been resumed between Austria and her small neighbors, Ser via nnd Montenegro. A dispatch from Cettinjo states that tho Aus trinns made an artillery nttnek last ing several days against Montenegrin positions all nlong the front, but thnt efforts to follow this with infantry advances were defeated. An artillery battle between Aiistriaus nnd Serb ians also is reported. These signs of increasing activity hnve no parallel in tho western front, where large move ments are under way. The nttnek on tho Dardanelles also has been stop ped, owing to the hnd weather. THE HAGUE, Netherlands, Mnrch 22. The Netherlands government nt noon today after n meeting of tho state council, forwarded a telegram to Berlin asking for nu explanation of tho proceedings of tho German submarino in taking foroiblo posses sion of tho Dutch steamers Batnvicr V. ami Ziuuistroom. LONDON, March 22. A Renter's dispatch from Amsterdam says thnt tho attack by n Geminn noroplnno on tho Dutch steamer Zevenbcrgeu, which arrived nt Yumiden yesterday, has caused an outburst of popular feeling in Holland, but has had no effect on the roovemont of vessols. Fifty-ono 3tear.ers of various nation nlities luivo arrived at or sniled from Rotterdam since Saturday, an so far as is known only ono has been at tacked by a German aeroplane thef British stenmor Elflund, which had been chartered by tho Belgian relief uomnuttee. Bombs wero dropped, but no dumngo wns done I ! fcrf SPRECKELS TO CONFER WITH PRESIDENT WILSON WASHINGTON, Mareh 22. Ru dolph Spreckols of California, ono of thoso interested in having the state of California tnko over tho Western Pacifio railroad, hns nn engagement for n conference with President Wil son tonight. Nothing regarding the object of his visit was uiuila known at the white house, VIGOROUS AHAK Runs MIL FRONT HOLLAND m EXPLANATION GERMAN SEIZURES ARTILLERY DUEL ATDARDANELLES LASTED? HOURS Slnklnq of Warships Descrhtal hy EyewitnessWas First Ttaw Ftoet Ventured Within Rane ef Ftrt's Guns Spectacle Prenfltmced In fercsting and Terrifying. ., , Storms ngnin luivo intervened to givp tho Dardanelles forts a rest, according to information given out in London. f - BERLIN, March 22. Tho corre spondent nt Constantinople of tho Wolff bureau telegraphed today a de scription of tho fighting nt tho Dar danelles, March 18, in which the French battleship Bouvci und two British battleships wero sent to the bottom. There follows an abridge ment of the correspondent's story of the engagement. Efforts of the allies to force tho straits of tho Dardanelles reached their climax in an artillery duel im March 18, which lasted seven hours. Tho entire ntmosphero around the Turkish forts was darkened by clouds of smoke from exploding shells and quantities of earth thrown into the air by tho projectiles of the French nnd British warships. The earth trembled for miles around. A Terrifying SpecUttcle Tho nllies entered tho straits at half-past eleven in the morning and shelled the town of Chanak Kale. Four French and five'Tlritish war ships took part in tho bombarding. This engagement reached its climax nt half past ono, when tho fire of the allies wns concentrated upon Fort Hnmidich and tho adjacent fortified positions. Tho attack of modern marina ar tillery upon strong land forts pre sented an interesting as well as ter rifying spectncle. At times tho forts wero completely enveloped in smoke. At 2 o'clock the allies changed their tactics nnd continued their firu upon individual batteries, but it was evi dent thnt they found difficulty in get ting tho range. Many of their shells fell short, cast up pillars of water or went over the fort to explode in the town. Ilouvet Seen Sinking At a quarter nnst tl;rco when tho bombardment was nt its hottest, tho French battleship Bouvct wns seen to ho sinking nt tho stern. A moment later her bows swung clear of tho wa ter nnd sho was going down. Roar ing cheers from the Turkish garrisons and forts greeted this sight. Torpedo bonts nnd other craft of tho nllies hurried to the rescue, but they woro successful in saving only a few men. Besides having been struck by a mine, tho Bouvct was severely damaged nbovo tho water lino by shell fire. One projeetilo struck her forward deck. A mast also was shot away nnd hung overboard. It could be soJt that tho Bouvct when sho sank was endeavoring to gala the mouth of the straits. This, however, wns difficult, owing apparently to tho fact, that her ma chinery had been damaged. ItrltMi Ship Struck Shortly nftor the sinking of the Bouvet n British ship was strjick on tho deck amidships and compelled to withdraw from tho fight. Then an other British vessel was badly dam aged nnd at a quarter before four was seen to retire under u terrifio fire from tho Tukish bnttery. This ves sel ran in toward tho shore. For full hour tho allies tried to protect (Continued on Page Four.) AUSTR1ANS RESUME MONTENEGRIN ATTACK HAVRE, via Taris, Marcli 22, 9 . m. A dispatch from Cettiiije" say tho Aiibtrians conducted a heavy ar tillery fire on all, the Montemwri fronts March 17 mi IS. Seven! In fantry attacks dirdd at point' near Gruhovo are, Mid to Uvi kwi rejHilsad by the, Maalwgriaat b suffered, wily fciht mHi n vf