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wiji)WH(tfiwfeTrr' FORECAST WEATHER Mattmnw fasfentay Mi MtH. Twin? ftTTj ftwrfp. .08. I'nlr Tonight ami .Vine .toy. Light FM fowlsrht. $. gills HMW1IN 6c4 K 1k .. 0 waa .w.it."Vt ""ft itng"L M'ATT ! r fir FtIv "'ith Trir 1 .in I I- m'iIIi V'Sf. BRITISH LOSE GERARD INVITED DREADNAUGHTINiTOVISITKAISER MEDITERRANEAN Battleship nusscl. Flying Admiral's Flag, Strikes Mine 700 About tl Saved, 124 Missing German Sub marine Sunk Off East Coast by Lfrithli Germans Sink GtinrdsUip. LONDON', A.ril 2.S-The ItrilMi battleship I(n- -t'H him been Mtmk liv it inino in the Mediterranean. Admiral Fremnntle, the captain or the Russell, 21 officers nnd ftTfl men were saved. About 121 lire missing. A Qcrnuin submarine win mink off Ihe onst eimt yesterday, it wn an nounced officially today. Eighteen " Turn on the foibiniirine were captured. The sinl.inic of the Itusscll mill of the flermnn Hiilituuriiu wit nnnoutic ei! in the following ofliciul statement : Official Account "II. M. K. itHssell. rn trying William Itowilen Kmith, It. N., flying the Unit of Hear Admiral Fremnntle, struck n mine in the Mediterranean yester day out! wiih sunk. The admiral, enp tnht, 2-1 officers mill (170 men were Kiived. There are about 124 officer and men miming. "A Qermnn submarine wn mink off the oast coast yesterday. One officer mill seventeen men of the erew sur rendered ntul were- made primmer. Under ordinary conditioiiH the Hus hed carried between 7."0 mid 801) men. TI:o Kiisscll wiih laid down in 18(H) iiihI mmipleted ill Ifini . She wiih lll." feet long, 7." feet bi'iini, 2(1 feet deei nnd displaced 14,000 tmm. Slie wiih nnned with four 12-inch, twelvu tl ineh, twelve :i-inch nnd six 3-pound guns and tour foriHHln tube. She vMt about. .fl,BHn.1WM. The ii-cl it. the eleventh Hiilish battleship whieh ha been lout dur ing the wnr. The other were the Audacious, Ihilwurk, Formidable, Ir resistible. Ocean, OoliaMi, Triumph. Majestic, , Ntitalo and Kintr Kdward VII. In addition iibiMit thirl v -live other liiitixh war-diiw of various ehtsses have been destroyed. (ittt'ttMMl UMltfllltH HKRLIN. A "HI 2H, via Iondon. -The admiral tv announced today thut on the night of April 2H-27 Herman Hi. ai fincc- destroyed h large Iintih uniird vessel on I Jogger bank and In ought hi u iwbing steamer u a l ixe. I.ONlMlN. April 27. The Mnli-h -ti nmwliip Indiilrv hn- ! en ! Ii a iihmaruie whieh left the crew of I lie Vessel in open IhuiIh 121) uulc I I mil luud. The erew wax picked up b the Anicii'iui liner Finland. The Finland Hailed from Litcipool tor Men- York Wednesday. The IihIiiIi was a 10(1-loot bo.it i.i U l"i'- mo, built in ItcH'.i-! in IhsK end i-wiH'd in I.icipnd. s'.c w '- la t I ( t i'i a- Iuimiiu '-ullril nil I.H-c 17 ll' 'M Nitpnlt N'l-W toi Ni Na.iii I i . 736 MERCHANT SIS DESTROYED EUROPEAN WAR .SIII.UTiN ril 2 - HrltUh thilituileH of the KiiroiCrfii ar'M toll of an H lir.rl -!ijis Kiven In tlnures toln U the department of commerce, put the numher at 73? wltli u tou nuge of more than 2,ooo,uoo. Allid veNMta loat number 33S and neutral 1H. The estimates, made by a Drltixh admiral, give British losses as 4M .ship. French 53; Russian 35; Mat ma ':': HeUM.n 10; and Japanese ? Thi doc not lurlude th los of 2)1 triwlim hy th Hrltixh, vcn hy thf FrfneU aiei two by the Haitians. XorKAt, with XI vessels destroyed, leids tlie neutral nation in losses. Sww!( with ii is second and Den 'Miark oith 2 U third Holland has Kst 21 und the United States 7. (British losses amrnt to four per ' cent of the totalotiumiier in service .a! -i er i nil of ! tuiipuye lii it' ' . (e "- ' ' i." 'i i ' t&) - i" 'tie 'el ; AT THE FRONT Invitation From Emperor Without an Explanation Indications Germany W41I Attempt to Meet American De mands for Abandonment of Its Practices In Submarine Warfare. WASHINGTON, April 28.-- Din patchen ri'ceived at the (Jerinan em b!H.v tiHlny from the Herliu foreign office indiciite that (iermnny will t tcnipt to meet the American demands fur immediate abandonment of its pracliccH in xiiliinnrine warfare. Tho tint tire of the proposals was not din cloned. Count Von lleriiKtnrff linn not been ndviKcd whether the miggealioiiH he recently made to hi government nt the invitation of the foreign office have been adopted. A iit of AmbiiiKAilor fternrd to KntKror William wiih n topie of broad interet in official and diplo matic ipiarleiv. .Siiininnneil by ICiiImt WASIIIN'UTON. April 2.S.- S.-.t,.-tury Limning announced late toda that AmliHHHndor Gerard in a cable dimtch telling of hin iuxilatiou to vinit KniHror William at grand head iiuii1eiM, dccbirctl that lie did not know the purjHmc of the conference. The eniieror, II r. ljinmng added, had invited Mr. 0c raid to iit him at the front without giving him any explanation. tbpecl h Kiilutton IIKRLIN', April 28.-A fcclm- of confidence that n solution will be fonnd to the inuttliHg (Jeniinu Ameri can dil'lieitltio. and that the pu-ent teiiNion will be ended exerted an cm dent effect ufi the Merlin -toek c change. The market wits ipiut, but Htcady, and the dealer who etcr day unloaded xnrioiw linen of htoeks were today icpnivlni-ing. Thin feel ing Wiu rt rengtlieiied bv the rciort of a recovery on the New York stock market yiMcrdoy for the Maine reu Mn. The eliauccllor, Ii .V'on Jk'tbmann Jlollwcg, nnd Admiral Von llolUcn ilort'f, chief of the navol general la IT, an' now at the general head-Minuter-, but it uiav eome tonight or tomoiiow iiiorniiiir, hich will indi elite imw I he eli.iin elloi' . report oil lln n iltil 1 1 ill ,i -titlemcnt was re cci.id iii ii i inn i in le- there. ON FRENCH FRONT lAKIs. Apid - N" impoitaiit eviiit- ,in- reported dm mi.' In-t mlit .iliiiiU the whole r'rem h liont. There has been intcrmitteiit nrtdleiv lire about Avocourt und Ksucs and home inneli fighting In the sectmu of l,i -iumIIc, wist of I'ont-n-MousMtn. Several aerial oombuLi are report- d in the course of whieh n Fokkcr plane wax driven to the earth in the iiieiiiv's lines near KcIcs-('ImuIiic-. Thin inl'oriiintii.n in contained in the French official rcMirt issued tin- at teninon, the text of which follow..: "Last night witnessed no cunt of importance, with the exception an inliruulteiit bomb.inliiii nt in the re gion of A' "in ii. d Fxm1, und a certain iicIimin on the Mirt tit our trench t;iin in tin -ulur nt Itegne- l!'e, VM -t ol I'ii ' Mini--"!!. IRE RUSSIANS ARRIVE IN FRANCE l'lt IS, April .' Ilavas dls paiih (rout Marieillts reior the ar rival there of a further contingent of Russian troops, tho number of wlili h Is not given. The Russians reached Marseilles this morning, the dWpatcti saj'aO and disembarked Inimuril&ttlv The niere received with - tame military honors which were accorded the pre- ihiii Iti-stsn df i ii (.no ill - auj were ' 1 . ! lo 'i i- ' I la '.J Ui , . i 1 (' I' I t 5 t QUIET PREVAILS MKDFOiin THE BEAR THAT WALKS VaMVf WmSm- i V'l!SieCeLVBrLJB?yBeasa' The tills I coutluKcut of Itiissiau Hoops landed ill I'liiiue IimImj- t N. W 1 1 l'ARIH, Apill . Tli.ii tlie (i.r man militury and natal htail.i are iireimrlna a great offenolve both against the combined Anglo-French army on the continent and the fleets on the roaat of Great Britain In a last deanerate bid for victory. Is the con clusion arrived at by Major De flv- rleux, the military critic of tho Matin, after a ctoso study of tho military factors of the situation. 'The simultaneous occurrence." ho dd. "of .eiuielln raids, the risky North Kea naval expedition and the unexpected outbreak In Dublin are not mere coincidence. At the same time," h points out, "the gwlsa fron tier h.i.-; heeii cloned for three weekf while on the From Ii front In Lor raine and In the Vosge theUeriiiaus are giving liombardments In the hone of dlvldiil; the attention of the French staff. "There Is one principle that th German, staff will never abandon " Major rivrleux concludes, unless un der absolute necext. and that is the retention of MrateKhal Initiative." DEMOCRATS SPEED UP AGRICULTURAL BILL WASHINGTON, Apin 2K- Threat. of demiMrutic house IciMler to in voke mciiburcfc to en fun c -isedv con sideration of the ndiiiiiii-li.itioii leg islative program look ruin rete hhih todav in U sj'ciul rule adopted bv a vote of 84 to Kb lor eun-ideraiioii oi" three fur-reaching amendment embodied in n rider on the agricul tural appiopnation biil. It would al low a little more than fite hotirV de bate on the giain grudmg, federal Haiihou-e and cotton t ut ur- pro-poial-, tilled out on Miiiits of order ruiscd bv rcpiiblicalii. htlll more driisti" rule- o con-ld-eration of other admini-tiatnm meas ures ure being emisidcidl. BRITISH nELIEF SHIP GROUNDS m TIGRIS London, Apni ,'s a h'i. tsb-p i nt In On Miit -I mt, i - Wir tin .i n ' i i .' K GERMANS LAN OFFENSIVE ND AND M oi:i(j(). Finnw. iiiil w. inn; Cl Ha W OF PRESIDENT j K YoltK, i II : - " lines tlgalioit wiim I.i 'in loil'n at the of fici' of the I'm'. I Stales illMriil at torncy to delt riui'H' wlutlo-r a crime had been commlii'd by pcrmum re- siwmtble for attmka on President Wilson and the national administra tion that hae appeared In Irish- 1 iiiaftlAkH tir itnlillMhfafl h,n altifit tho outbreak of the tevolutlon In Dub. lln. The attention of the federal au 1 thorltlea wan first aroused by an edi torial statement mat Information which led to the Making of the Ger man ship wlili Ii attempted to land arms and a nun mil Hon on Irish soil came from a mem in of tho Washing ton arimlnlM rat Ion "In orders of President WIImiii ' This dedaru lion haa been authoritatively denied In Washington. Colonel Patrick I. Wallace, com mander of a I'oiiin inura brigade of i tho Irish volunteer, who is now In New York, Is uuthoiity for tho state- mi at that the prc at situation in lie land was not fun i rod tn Uermuuy nor In Americu "The plans o i t Ji- Irish volunteers, " bo said, "have l.ei u ready ever since the first talk or conacrlptlon was heard In Ireluwl. M the time of the revolt there w re lino full armed and fully trained nluuteerx In UuIj lin. "Out throaghoui 'he country there were 0. 000. Willi i he neutral bodies there are today "n 000 Irish volun teers, who. when Hi' real test comes, will fake the ficbl against the Kiik llhh." All opposite vii w la cypres: id by the Alui'iult of M.erdeen, for nine ears Wciroy of Inland. lrd Aber deen, who U now in New York, hsld that while he dl.l not und r citlmutc the serlousne.is ut ihe situation, he mas neierthe! h onvinced that tho outbreak would ! of abort dura tion. i liKKLIN, ApiiI J Turkish tmoi,, .tliinliiluted lour Mritinh cavuliv! s,.iadioit, i hat-I lie April 2:i r.c.ir vuiiun. about " ' R . i ,i i ! i , ii . .in i 'I ii ' ,ili i I H ( ATTACKS UPON ENG NVETIGATED LIKE A MAN!1 aid the allies. BY N S ll.l.K. Apill I! Letters to the l.oiille und Natdiville, and Nashville, t'liattanooKa ami Ht Units railroads, retiuestliiK passes for judges, legislators, wit ileuses and newspapers were read today Into the record of the Interstate commerce commission's investigation of alleged corrupt practices by these carriers. Carey Williamson, a former legis lator, said ho voted for a full crew law, an electric headlight bill and other measures optioned by railroad and that after these vote in 1V0I his pass was not renewed. Senator Mo Kinney testified he had requested more than five hundred trip passes in H'UI. F.xanilner Carlton of the commis sion read copies of letters from tho files of the two roads, showing the iiho of passes In Tennessee and Ken tucky one letter from a legislator, requo-tliiK a pass for a friend e-vr the t'haitaiiooua road coucluded, "what do ou want me lo do with the railroad bills now before the com minion"'" TIS I YOI MiSHlU N. O. Apill 3K.--'Tho Uepub'le ltuii' i company's 'plant here, eiupolnw mm men was clo.-ed todu. en nh nt Thomas L. ltoi'iiison .'-.id tie I'l.nii was closed for li.viuioi. leu would not reoiMin In tuse of the il in.tlids of the em plow i lie K.i id- ' "V will r'o pi i wl n the men aro wlllliu- to work und' r present shop ' conditions and ,-. " rat to be fix ed.'' I Ma hlnUtn h.ivt demanded an eight hour iluv wild tin Imiiri pay und a , i !',-, d .'lio) TO LAXHIXO. Kan . April 21 Fred Kts..i, held on a ih.iriic oi mttrder- in j ii n i ii Id I In i I mi .mm In I'., i ! a - i i i . 1 1 1 1 -. -. I I 1 1 . i i I , . ii in. in .. I PASSES REQUESTED LEG SLATORS ROM RAILROADS U arc T Carranza's Minister of War at Jua rez for Conference With Scott Has 40,000 Troops In North and American Aid Mot Needed Says Villa Wounded In Mountains. KL PASO, Tl-., April 28. flcneral Alvnrw Obregon, minister of war of tho do facto government, m in Lm rea today waiting to confer with Ma jor (louemlH Scott and KuiintuiT on tlui militury ipicelioin (bat lira in volved in the AmmicHii punitive o. pedilioii into Mexico. (letiernl Obregon, neeomimtiii'd by (tenetitl Jacinto Trevino, militury governor of Chihuahua ; (leneral Sam uel S. SiintoM, (lovcrnor Knriiindk of ChUiiiiihtiM nnd l'lrsidcnt .lose Luis lhu'rerii nf Pnrral, reached .1 Hares on a sMH-ial trniii Ibis morning. (iciieral Scott ami (leneral Fiuiston are dim In reaeli hern tonight, when it is expected tlml arraiigemeuta will he made for I In- firnt conference to be held in dun res tomorrow, lias I'lenaiy l'oweiH (liuieial Obregon antieipatcd a sat iufneliiry eimference, and while lie did not ity ho, it was indicated that he was vented with plenary imwera by I'tral Chief Can a nun to effect an adjiiHlmeiil or the mililnry Hiliialinn that now obtniiiH along the Mexican bonier. After a conference wiih the mili tary and civil attthoriliea in the cus touw Iiuihc, (leneral Obregon met tlie neWM-aMM-meti, but he added but lit tle to (he information olieady given out on his joiirnev north. The min ister of war said he did not care to talk about the conference. Asked what he would do in case the Ameri can troopN were kept in Mexico, Hen eiul Obregon replied through mi in terpreter: "That is a matter whieh wo Iioki to arrange in conference." "It has been suid that Ihe Ameri can government would like to keep the troop m Chihuahua more iih a guard lor ths frontier mi iih to help the Car rauxn government f" was asked. "I do not wish to huv anything about that, an it might be prejudicial to the wiieeess of the conference," re plied the minister of war. TlilnU Villa Alho (leneral Obregon in reply to a ipies lion said that he thoiiuht the de lacto government had sufficient troops lo take care of Villa and his bands without aid from the I'mle.d Stales. "(leneiul Obregon, do you think Villa is dead 7 " "I do not believe Villa is dead," was the ipilek reply; "but 1 am po,itie that be is wounded mid suiter-. Im luck of medical attention and theie fore has small chance to be (icr-oii ally active again in any cauipamii-." 'Have you siiltictcut trooM lo capture VillwT" wiih the next ques tion. "Ye-.," answered Obregon. "Thai will w- easy. His bandit nre broken up and it is now only a MucMtioo of liunling one mini. Villa with a few of his follower, 1 believe, is near the boundary of Smaloa and Konorii." (bncial Ohifgoii declined to talk about the linanciul sltliaiion III Mex ico, sa.vm-f that lie wa a military man and those iiuestioiis should only he considered bv the minister of lm- nnee. Me laughed loudly when asked about the reiMjrt of friction between the hrst chief and himself. "There never has la-en any friction bit ween (iiuciul Carranxit and my sell' und tin le I-. I,' , hmxiii now than ever lor .my im t,. ui," remarked tlen ci.il Obie-jou a- Iii iIiimiI I Iii talk. REGISTRATION TOTALS 240.000 FOR STATE LA A N I KAI.K.M, Oi , Apnl 'h Ae.oid llig to estimate, miide todav by Ihe ot flee f, the -.i-cretarv ol -date, the total registration tor the coming primary election in Oregon will be over 840,000, an inereaAi of wore than 10,000 over the legislation for h I. lit pi ilii.ii V i let lion ' 'I ' Hilt .1 I1, il tilt- II fuilili ' 'in i 'i n , I,, ,,, , ,, J 1 ' ' i . 'I' i J I nun 1 i ' ' i.i in i . . i i NO. H2 m OF By GOVERNMENT Nothimj Conccrnltio Dufilln Uprising Given Out Nationalists Deny tho Withdrawal of Support on Recruit ing Question Lenience in Dealing With Conspirators Advocated. LONDON, April 28. Tho twtional ist members of patliameut today de nied a rt'iairt imblinhed in morning iim"swpm that tliey intended to withdraw their stipiwrl of the nonl llinn govcniiiwiit on (ha roerttititig iliiestinn. No news concerning thu lrogrens of the Irish revolt or its suppretiHion wns given out today. Tho situation m snid to he tinder control. Shoitlgbletl llolurtanco Denting with the IriaJi'witimlion, (ho Daily Cltroniele urgen Uia gorarnmeut ngalnal (ho adaption of too harsh measure, milling: "The immediate military situation ought not to present great diffiettl tica. It is hard to understand how Ihe Sinn Feiitcr have linen able to hold out for days in Dublin. Wo should have thought that all military argument would favor oruslilng Ihe movement in Ihe capital with tho ut most rapidity, for every day that tt pmlrnclit ilM resistance must add (o the risk of ita finding imitators else where, if reliictnjKH) (o destroy bricks ami mm tar has delayed the bombarilmeiil of buildings it has been very abort-Highied reliictanco. Hut, white drong military action must be the first ecntinl, we hoe trials un der martial law ami the use of the military for any hut strictly' military optirnliona will he avoided as 'far ax Ntsaible. Seek Pi-ompt Iuiiilry "We hoe, loo, there will bo a prompt nnd honest impiirv into thu motives of the rebels and (he beat means for bringing them back lo their semwtK. A commission eomposde of acknowledged Irish leaders to assist in dealing with Ihe rebela and nego tiate their surrender might lie of great service. Kir I'M ward Carson ami John Kcdutond are ready to co oierute in this way. The object to he aimwl at is the rest oration of onler as hooii as iMiswible with the least bloodshed. There is a daee for mediation iih well as for repression, and leading Irishmen should lie invit ed to undertake it unobtrusively und unolfleiallv without tlelav." 'S I TOKIO, Japan, April i - -IHh-patehea from America roncernlug Japan's protest against the Iliiraett mmlgrallon bill are given promlaenco by the Japanese newspapers but no anil-American sentiment has been voiced. The dominating note Im the slight press comment Is a ealw eon fldence that the American legislators will not adopt a law unjust to Japan or offensive to Japanese dignity and honor. The Japanese government resents the proHal to enact Into law the Root-Takahlra agreement reatrletiug Immigration of Japanese laborers and also objects to a provision la tho peqdltiK Immigration bill which by inference wouM class Japanese with excluded Hindus. The seaate lounl gration committee yesterday agrsl to modify the bill by eliminating ref erence to the Root Takahlru agree ment. 'J OF TO COKV Ll.ld. Or., April ai. A. D. Urowu, proft-stiur of physical educa tion at Miami university, Ohio, today accepted the appointment as director of pbvftcal education at llm Oregon aurii ultural college to succeed Dr. K T si. wait who Kooi to a similar position i the Cniverxity of Ne 1.) l-k I REVOLT D AN PROTEST GIVEN PROMINENC &..