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TEDDY CLAMORS
FOR UNIVERSHL
Ml SERVICE
Roosevelt Speaks In Dclroit to Over
come Ford Peace Influence No
Reasonable Defense Except Thor
ough Preparedness to Fight Any-
. hotly and Strike Hard.
DI'.TUOIT, Mich.. M 10. Colonel
Theodore llonscvelt in mi mlilics
lii'io today ruitumti'il ! i opposition
"lo all Kinds of hyphenated Ameri
canism," advocated universal mililnrx
service based on universal I milling,
iiiul declared that we must abolih
"pork ban el" methods in our natiunal
defense, ship talking ami get down to
tlic actual business of tlioi'oiiitli pic
jnii'(liii! if we are to "make tin na
tion t'.s strong a-, nro it conviction
in icfereiice to right anil wrong."
Coliini'l Koosevcll prefaced In-
speech ny announcing in1 nail "some
I ic if to Michigan because in tlu prnn -niv
fur tlio selection of delegate t
tlu icpiihlicnn national convention
fcMr. lord was ifturiiMiH ami tollow
inj( his victory here, he showed a
marked popular stieugth in Nc
liiaskn ami Pennsylvania. Tlio of
iVi't of t hii-i showing lias been inline
ilinti'lv visible upon nianv of tlu pol
iticians uitliin ami without congress.."
Iti'fiiM'iI tu Pivpuir.
"Wi1, through mir repieenlnlives
at Washington," said Colonel onc
M'll. "have abolutelv refused in the
smallest dcgicc to prcpuic ilniintf tin1
Iwonlj-tHii months of world enta
elvsm. V have icl'iiscd to learn (la
hinallc-l puit of the lei-son being writ
ten in Uurope, Wo have emlenvoretl
to deceive nurselve liv announcing
that in this policy of supine inaction
ami of failure to ih-i form duly we are
actuated hv I hi loftiest, motives. J
loulit whether we have reallv deceiv
eil ourselves, him most certainly we
have not deceived other.
"There i no in-e in saying Hint we
will til ourselves o defend ourselves
a little, hut not much. Such a mi
Iioii i equivalent to amioiiiiciiitr that,
U necessary. wt liall hit, but that we
shall only hit softly. The onl m-lit
principle is to prepare thorouuhlv or
not at all. The only right principle
is to avoid hitting if it i Miiilr
to do mi, hut never under au u
ciinotaiice to hit oltlv. To x t..
war a little, hut not iniich. in the u'
ahsolutely certitiu wuy to iin.ure ili-a-ter."
Action Ni'i'ilvil.
I'olonel HiHievelt dceliiled that
the Wilson udiuinistnitiiiu "has taken
no step for prHire4liiert and Inn
done iiolliiuuvfiieient tu uluiu "'
uatioiiul litihtx."
"We must muke this nation as
strong us urt its convictions in ref
erence to riiHit and wioiib." deelurcd
Colonel ItiHiseelt, "It little iiiutteis
what our ideuU niuv be ami what
ahiccnieutK we muv Iiom lor. il
these ideals nud Hchii'vemeiit. i-uniiiit
he reduced to action. A considerable
part of the strrrulli of ilr. Kord in
the primaries and of the strength o
tl; iidMute of linll-preparednei..
at Wasliuiittmi comes trum the fad
that no real alternative of ih.Ii.-. il
tiered with fcineeritv and fearies-lies-.''
J n uru-inir Muniverul mililurv or
icc InimmI on univorsHl traininu." Col
onel ltoocveit wiid he believed in it
hci-.uw it Mould be not only of v:rat
lu-iietit to the nation in the event of
war, but of inculfulabh benefit to the
imluidiiaU umlergoinfr it, and then
tore to the nut ion, a leganU ih
uork of teaee.
CuUei'sal .Vivlct.
('"Iiuiel i(oM'elt assorted ih it
"tin fXtreine miMil pill t III ('I ni.t ii v
h.i- leri-ulU alv.icatcl war Willi tin
I nihil t.ili- on the 'jrniitiil that in
the i ml, .1- tin le-mt nt -ii h i war.
(Continutd oa p&;e six)
YASHIi.T Ma Tune
AiaerlculU Who tie anion,: the re
dPlUi Uiltish steamer Knarosiier. re
ported sunk off the Isle A YeiC prob
ably b.t a mine, sire ed, accord-
ngoto a dispafth to the stale de-
liartiit-iii toil.i fro'i the VnWfi'r r.
(CDl - i it I ,. Ito. 1 i ' i 1 r .I
ENGROSSER
KAISER CONSIDERS
CONTROVERSY OVER
i SUBMARHES UIDED
WASIllXflTOX. May 19.
(irrniHiiy romlderhiK Hio mib
niiirliie controversy with tlio
t'nltod StHteg rloiod, lias ilo
termltied to make no renpoiKH!
to Hie last American note on the
mihlect.
With the animrent end of tlio
Kiilntmrltie crisis ami (icrmnny's
ailmonltloii to her cIHzoiir In
the Unltod States to olioy local
laws, (lurinan officials foul that
the only remalnliiK ''anno of
frlitlon is the case of Wolfe
von Iel, former suciotnry to
tlie recalled Cermau military
atlHihe. arrested In New York
In connection with a pint to
lilow up the YVcllnnil canal.
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CALVIN MED
FOR PRESIDENT OF
PACIFIC
rnHTI.AXD. Or. Max HI. K. I'..
Calxin, xice-ne-ident and general
nianatter of the Oieumi Shoit Line
railroad at Salt Lake, is believed by
local transportation men to he the
official who will succeed A. L. .Mah
ler, who has announced hit resigna
tion as president of the I'liinii Pa
eilic sy-tem ami of the Orenon Shoit
Line, effective July 1.
Railway men who are in imsition
to know the ihhsoiis for soluetioti of
e.xeeutive oftieials do not credit ru
mor that il. 11. Farrell, )reident of
the Qicittiii-YVtishiiuttou itnilwav &
Xavigntiou Co., will succeed Presi
dent Mohler. In iew of the fact that
Far re 1 1 i known to prcler lixinir at
either Portland or Seattle In Omaha,
and that all of hi- la rue financial
interest are in the Pacific northwent,
they ladiexe it improbable that he
would accept the po-itioli.
Ilulh I'lT-iilcnt Karicll and Vlee
l'icnleiil .mil lli'iieial Maliaucr !. P.
Il'ltlliti are .it Si'.illli tml. IV.
FAIE OF LYNCH
NKW YORK. Mn lit. The fate
of Jeremiah (' I.micIi, hii American
eltlsen, ho u to have been shot
t daybreak in Dublin Is believed to
be screened 1 strict censorship. No
word regarding the man who had
been convicted of complicity In the
Irish rebellion had j'ome over the
cables up to nine o'clock this morn
ing. President Wilson made an elev
enth hour plea for a stay of execution
Just before midnight last night in
Washington. Owing to the differ
ence In time Lynch was to have faced
the riring squad about three hours
after President Wilson bad directed
that a cable lie sent to London ask
ing that the execution be deferred
until the American government could
make an Investigation Into the case.
It a not known here whether
President Wilton h plea reached the
Knsllnh authorities in time to save
LmkIi fiom lictiifc' exet uted.
PRIMARY VOIE
REMARKABLY LIGHT
piiHTI. l r . M.t l' re
nutkail lialu vote sh iunt In Port
land and the state during the da,
in the Oregon primary election. A I.
though the usual rush to the polls
late In the day was expected. It was
considered that a considerable por
tion of those ho registered would
not vote. Light voting was reported
troia other cities In the state.
fin Portland the heaviest voting
was In precinct 202. where up to
noon nh fit! republicans, 3 demo
i rat and no progressives out of a
total registration of 379 had cast
their ballots. In another precinct
out of fo registered onH '' republi
can had xottej In proportion U the
iiiin'.r r-)!i-'ie t' ' r jf
M
CENSOR
SCREENS
C
T
Fresh Divisions of German Troops
Attack at Avocourt Wood and Hill
304 and Obtain Footinn at Hill 287
Atillcry Active Alonp, Entire Line
French Trenches Taken.
PAHIS, Mnv tit. -Violent Hulling
on a larjte scale was restimed on the
Verdun front last night. Two lics'i
divisions of (Joinian trooiw attacked
French positions at Avoeouit wood
ami Hill MO I, west of the Meu-e. The
war oflice niiiioiiiii'es the Htluek in
the main were iiiiut,'tiful, nltliuiiKh
the Oermaiis oblained a loetiuit: m a
small po-it south of Hill '-!S7, wlmb
lies just to j the eawt of Avoeouit
wood.
The (leiniaiis altenipted to recap
ture the sieall foil on the norlhca-t
slope of Hill :itll, which the French
took on the preceding day, but tin-it
el fort failed.
Iiilautrv fiithliiiH' was confined for
the most part to the nee I or west of
the Meiise. Knsi of the river ami in
the Woexre the artillery was active.
The oflieial stnteinenl vi that
the troops employed by the (lennan
iii their attacks bad been seat re
cently to the Venliin front.
Sub-Lieutenant Nuvnirc, one of
the best-known l-'ieneh aviators, who
recently engaged in a fiht with five
German aeroplane, lirouulit down bis
tenth machine in an aerial eombat at
Holaute in the Aixonno.
I'lt'iicli Statement.
The text of the statement su.xs:
"In the weslorn rl of the Argonne
region the eneinv hn emloavored to
aiietmte a small salient of our line
ul a Miint nenr St. Hubert. This at
tempt was made alter the explosion
of a mine. Our curtain of liie cheek
ed the Hermans Ieciitclv and they
were thrown back into their trenches.
"On the left bunk ( the Mcum
yesterda evening (Jenmiu forces re
newed their attacks in the xicinilx of
Avoeouit wood ami Hill M. Thee
attacks were of extreme violence. In
them participated lurge number-. t
men belongiiig to two divisions leccnt-
Ix arrived on the held. The eneinv
I'liinnl it imHible to disliHlge u
liiini our positions in the AviH-ourl
vviiiul and west of Hill .'Mil. Never-thele-.,
on the center the eneinv li
able tu occupx a small work south of
Hill 'JHT. Several endeavors to con
tinue their pi ogre ut this Huit
wen- dellliitely elieeked by the Fn'lieh
fire. On the mirtheut biH of Hill
.'I0I mi endeavor to recapture the
imill fort taken hv n yesterday re
sulted m failure.
"On the right bunk of the Mouse
ami in the Wocvrc there wn moder
ate uitilleiv activity."
ti'eiliian Stiitenntiit,
ISKKLlN', Mav lit. French
trenches on both sides of the Unit
court -Kue high road, on the Ver
dun front, west of the Meiise. have
been captured bv the Herman, the
war office announced today. Nine
French oftieem and Pit) men Mere
taken prisoner.
The text of today' (ienuuii arm.x
heai(iinrtei-s tatement suvs;
"Western Iront : Wet of the Mcue
we captured French trenches on both
side of the mail from Ilaucourt to
Ksiics, extcndiiitr t the outhein cor
ner of the famiiuil ()u-kl wood.
.Vine iiftu-ei ami I'JII men xvclf taken
pn-oner.
"A in w a 1 1, 1 1 k In the French
i-.iili-t Hill iOlliink iluMii Hllh eoll-
(Continued on paste two.)
SHIPPING BILL
SllM;TO Xlav IS Final
debste on the administration hip
ping bill ak reported today In the
house. At i o'clock this afternoon
voting or amendments begins.
The section authorising the gov
ernment lo purchase, lease or char
ter vessels for use as naval auxil
iaries or transports and put them
la the merchant marine In ime of
peace mas strleken out b a vote of
IfiS in In "tfej eiii fttupj of fie
Nffl
HI
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N
ON
FINAL
DEBATE
PREPAREDNESS PARADES
1 " N t -rP
Plans aii being mmlc in til lea in all puiix ol iln iounti for hold
ing pretMiedneas parades, on tne order of the , York parade, pic
tured above, an Indication that (he preparedness ileinonst ration Idea Is
sweepiiiK the nation. One hundreil ami flftv thousand men and women
took art In the Xcv York parade. It took the inan liet-M thirteen hours
to pin-M a kIvcii point The i!itun. taKi-n fiom u "k -i raper. kIiowh the
inanheis in u human river in I'lltli a v. , - ti u -
SHELL
Q '
0
LONMON, Mas I' IliHisli war
ships ami ut lopluuch have liomburd
ed the town of Kl A rich In K-vit,
Hear the border of l'aliiiin, .uni
are believed to have ilcnirnwil Hn
fort there, It u .iniiouiin-il oft I
clall today. Kl iish is on the
Turkish line of iommuiilialion
from 8rlu to Kuypi
The text or the llrltlsh i.iihi.iI
statement sa)s:
"The geneial orfin-r coi.iiii.iniliiiL.
tu chief In Kpi iKtrth tbai on
ships, aeroplanes and seaplHiien, mm
cessfully bombardd Kl Arl-h, an I in.
portaut tost on the enemy line of
communications from Syria to Kkm'.
on the morning of M' is. The shlpH
bombarded the fort southwest of the
ton and are believed to have r
duced It to ruins.
"The aerial attack was divided
Into two phases. The ses planes
opened the bomhaiilment, belli fol
lowed later by the iifioplane. A ol
umn of troops, a'amt lo'in htronu,
was seen south or Hid town on the
march and tlwe iombH explodtd
among them Ml nni (.mips ei
eftec lively bomiianinl
"All the ships an! machines re
turned safely.
"Lieutenant General Sir Hi van
Mahou has nHiimei command on tlu-Ae-tirn
from ii i ol KtfMt ami l.icu
'tiiiiit Milne i- nou i ommanitiiih' t!
llritl- Ii t hi" .ii "-.ilnnlKi "
CHINESE LEADER
OF REVOLT SLAIN
KAN FHANi I"' " M.-v I" iu.
eral Chen I In uei. , Inh i 1 1 in oi
the Chmee rev-liitntiiitrv' pailv. via-,
Ussa-Miiuleil llilii -itiHi-eii Niiau
Shi Kai HiipiMiilei - (I) Khniinliai la-l
llif)llt. njvicen to the f ):
iVi-i,it lull t,iti ilOlislav .
1. if fill i & "' i
iil 4 M ,
BRITISH
EGYPTIAN FORTRES
HELD
TURKS
mi over wmmm GAIN
v --'J GROOM ALONG
'uim ITALIAN FRONT
IPERSHING
u
L'
COI.I Mill rt, X. , Mn) l.--
What .ippirntU v;ii a regiment of
1 iiii I It an i iv.i'i i , ion-idling of about
Mm iiH-ii uirniilai tin expeditionary
Iishi Inn' tnii.n, miiiu from Mei
ino ttrmmh ii iilimliiiK dust storm.
I Tin- troop". Die fir-.i iii in withdrawn
'iliue the iliHpati Ii ol l In expedition
tin weeks mko, iiiimeillaiefy wont
' mill i. nap on the milltiii) reerva-
tinu
M (III hi authorltlcM liiie ilei liueil
lit iIIm ims the inovf an nt and It 1
not known here whethii iliesc irooi'H
lire in In held ut ('oluui'nii or are lo
pallid another iMiition ol tin- border
i The movement. hoeit, Ii was stat-
il. is not the beitlnnliiK of a general
wuhur.kival of tin. expeditionary
troops.
I
HAN NTOIO, M.i, I i In order
to alve aiIeiiiHle pioii i Mini to test
leii'.v hi Hn- III;-' It' ml !i-trlit the
Sixth cavalry has bun withdrawn
from Pcishlnu's column .nr' will bo
it nl en patio! ilul almiK I lie border
i a-a ami wi't of lti,'i ililu . It ar
riviil at Coluiiibiih loit.r
VILLA OPERATES
y u
I I. I'Ami. f, x . l t I Ki.iu
i i -i ii 1 1 a i opi-l n I in j mill u I ',U
iil under ,111 iis-'incd name, .icetird
i tn this ti i ,J. .i i' pull I ul i nine
I una I'anal ' i ii Mi , i'it iiij I lie
name of A i 1 1 1 1 tin lj he
employed 'in ' efore
he bcca , had
uutl" in the
I The bun
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ii. i ii ! ii (f , ..nl ' i I'u
Si
PA A DV
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TO PATRO
BORDER
DER
ME
1
Successes achieved by Superiority of
Artillery on Difficult Mountain
Slopes Captures of Prisoners Ex
ceeds 7500 Points of Stratcujc
Importance Captured.
IlLItLIX, .May 19. The Austrian
offensive south and southeast of Ho
virtn Ih making progress dally. Tlio
! iistrinn front already has lioun nil-
vanced five miles In places.
Theie galna have been made In tlio
'.up of great difficulties. The moun
tains are still covered with snow.
The ustrlans fought their way,
. tending and descending slopes
vanillic In altitude as much ns 1000
reel within a mile. Dispatches from
iiHtrlau headquarters Indicate that
the successes achieved are due to
(he miperlorlty of the artillery, which
has such a crushing effect that It Is
poiisiblo tn launch Infantry attacks
after comparative short preparation.
Captmes Kxcectl 7500
Captures of men and material are
Increasing dally. The number of
prisoners now exceeds 7."00. The
Austrlaus also have takon Kl cannon
and 3. machine gnus.
The positions captured have boon
In the builds of the Italians for
mouths. They Include points to
which the Italians attached the great
est strategic Importance.
Toda.v's official Austrian report
-avs
"Italian frent: In the coastal re
gion and on the Cartntblau sector,
artillery operations were Impodud by
fog. Southeast of Monfalcono tlio
Italians attempted to recover posi
tions near Itagul when they lost re
cenlyl, hut they were repulsed.
"In the Col dl Luna district re
peated hostile attacks were made
without success. In the southern
Tvrnl Austrian-Hungarian troops at
tacked and captured the frontier
ridge of .Vlagglo between the Astlco
and Leno valley, crossed the Luau
valley southeast of Plassa ami took
Costabella. They repulsed several
hostile attacks south of Moschere,
on the egnstorts.
laisMvs Knot moils
Yesterday we captured more than
'.mn Italians smimg whom wete lwelv
on h its and took eighteen cannon and
mai lilne guns.
The official Italian reports of
May 1 and 17 state that the A astro.
HuuKarlau lossea In these engage
ments were enormous. These report
Were Invented In order to diminish
the Impression made by the Italian
retreat. The losses of the enemy ran
he elected only b those who hold the
battlefield. The Italians are not in
that osltlon. The Aiistrn-llungar-ians,
while appreciating at Its full
value that the Ausiro Hungarian loss
es have been exieedlngly small,
thanks to the ubiiliv of the Infantry,
the powerful piotection given by the
artilh-rt n,l ilu- txpcrlcnie III war
of tin i limn nnlcrs
BOLL MOOSE
CIIICAI.O. Mav l! ) K Davis,
secretarv of the innaiessive part)
national mm in It tee assumed charge
today of the plana for the part) na
tional convention to be held at the
Auditorium, June 7.
- Our principal dlft Unity thus far
Is to find seats for those xho vaut
to attend our convention," sld Da
via. "Most of the states have eb-i te.i
double or triple delegations, hile
ncveral have chosen four times tin
nu in iter of delegates fixed b) the o
riiial tall."
' Is Colonel Roosevelt comlna to
Chicago for the convention?" he was
asked.
"Not that I know of, said Secre
tary Davis.
K. P. Corrlck, progressive state
chairman of Nebraska, said he had
Information that the entire delega
tion of 'fourteen from Wa$lngton
and at least six of the eight dele
gates fio South Dakota to the re
publican national convention would
irrnft lor i'olonel too$)elt for presl
ltr.t on 1 1 tvnt i?iji O
PREPARING
HBH REVOLT
PRECPTATEDBY
AID OF GERMANS -
Birrcll Tells of Growth of Sinn Fein
Movement Realized Danger, But
Thought Policy of Non-intervention
Safest Home Rule Anjtatlon
Back of Revolt.
LONDON. May 11). AintUHtino
Itirrell, who resigned ns chief seem
(ary for Ireland after I lie Sinn Kelu
revolution, appeared today us n wit
ness before the royal commission,
which is eomlueting an inijuiry into
the lush rebellion.
Mr. Hindi stated that he had rend
Sir .Matthew- Nathan's statemunt of
yesterday lhat the government had
advance information of the Irish ro
bellion and snh) he did not know- that
there were any additions lie wished
to make, lie then rend a statitinunt
in which he described Sinn Kulnism.
Home Itule Aullatlon.
Mr. Itirrell centinued: "If tlio Immu
rule bill had not been placed on tlin
statute hooks theie would hnvo buuii
a great explosion of rage nud disap
pointment, both in Ireland and in tliu
I'niled Stales, which, when war on inn,
would have assumed alarming pro
put lions. The events in Ulster iiml
the gun-running' at latrnu by thu Ul
sterites in 111-1 uiidoiibttHlly bud a
great effect on disloyalist ulso
where." Knglaml hud preserved an unbro
ken ftotit at the outbreak of tlio war,
through the imtiiotisin of John lleil
nioiiil, Mr. llinell, continued, but
there were many who did not ngreu
with bia altitude. It was impostillilu
to overestimate the effoet whiuh the
advent of the Ulster leader, Sir Ho
ward Carson, to the cabinet, had c.
ercised iihh the minds or the peoplu
of Ireland. If Mr. Ilmhnoiid hnd no
cepled office in the same oablnot hu
would not have lemained loailur of
the Irish urty.
(criuuns Hack of It.
When it was seen that the war
would be prolongeil, Mr, Mir rail saiil,
Itvland soon ileveloHHl not wholly
unreiisoimlde eeetations of a Her
man binding' ami of partial riaiiura in
different wrts of Ireland; and irom
ises of (lennan assiatanre were at
the bottom of the outbreak. Answer
ing Hanoi Ifardiiige, Mr. Itirrell aaid;
"Kinu Keiitisiu had spread all over
the place. The Sinn Feiuera wuie
siek of iMirliamentnrv iwrties anil
they desired to be left alone. I real
ised for two years certainly lhat llwru
was a dangerous movement in Ire
land, but after consultation with lha
various Irish leaileis I came to tha
conclusion that a policv of noa-inler-vent
ion was the safest. To disarm
anv one section of the Miuilane on
the evidence we had would have bven
dangerous."
Haron Hurdiiige: "Vou neetl net
answer this quest mn, but why war
the Irish leaders who advised yon in
this policy lu be relied upon 7 H
Tells of CousplMicy,
Mr. Itirrell: "In the first place, (
hud tunned a pretty clear ealiaVMt t
my own, and I don't thing I ever was
much influenced bv other uoofgW, Ikti
Mr. Kednioud, for example, always
look the view that the Sinn INiners
were neuliuible and he said so Ut ths
btiu-e ot I'liiiiiiiun., I did not attach
much importance to his oyinlow he
eau-e I wn ipiite auro they wr
daiiucroiis."
Conliuuiiig, Mr. Itirrell aaid he halt
daily reports from the ltoyal Iriaii
coiisubular and theae reporta w:
of such a character that one eonjtl
form a ucueral estimate of the state
I lielinii in Mn' fount rvide.
"I alw n- l.lt that I was very ig
(('(intiiiiifil nu Last Page)
CHKlsTIAXl , Soisay, May 18.
The government is lousiderlug a bill
for compulsor arbltratioa In order
to avert a lockout which the eutule-.
ers' association has announced will
be put Into effect June S against
all uuiou worknjen. There Is grave
feeling here that if the lockout hi
not prevented an Internal eontKat
will be brought about which Wight
prove a luttiousl disaster.
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