Medford mail tribune., June 03, 1916, Image 1

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Minimum Todiiy III.
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D1LY
IBUNE
l.TJLXiJLJl vli'JL
OF GERMAN WARS
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pr Vipr vr 1111
RAVJKL FIGHT
FORCED BY
THE BRITISH
'We Went Out Within Enemy Waters
Seeking a Fight. Our inferior fleet
Engaged the Entire German Battle
Fleet, Forced Them to Return to
Harhor and to Give Up Any Plan of
Action They May Have Contem
plated," Is Statement of British
Admiralty.
LONDON, Juno :i.-Al tin UiilWi
mlinimlly loilny llie followiinf twU
liionl win nmdo to llie Aociwicd
l'ltws:
"We went tint within t'lit'iiiv water
seeking a fight. Our inferior fleet
cngiigeil tlio entire Herman buttle
fluel, forced Ilium to rutnrii tu hnr
hor mill tn give up any plan of nc
tiuii tliey may have coiitoinplnteil."
It wiii aniiiMiueeil that the latest
report received tVtitii Aihuinil .lellieo
ami Viee-Adminil Heady litul ctiu
eil a feeling of elation among naval
ufrieeiH, meanwhile awaiting detaileil
reH)ri from officers who imitiei
met iliu the net ion.
Looking rue a fight
"We ean only uy we were looking
for a fight when our fleet went out.
Stork's that it wua ihfoyeil lv the
Herman are heertHt nmienc. In
n word, with an inferior fleet we en
gaged the hi i tire Herman high-on
fleet, interrupted their plan and
drove them hack into their liuilmix.
"In carrying out the plan decided
upon we sustained heavy ha,
which we ekpeeted," Hum offieial
said, "hut we also iiltniaed the ex
aeted result of fun-inn the eneiav to
abandon his plan and eck refuge af
ter we had Riven battle it) hi own
Male I- near It in const.
"With the exception of two diti-
vm, only part of whieh were engag-
ed, the lirutit of battle wn borne by
the battle cruiser fleet and with oho
exception our battle fleet i readv for
sea sen ice. I miiMt admit that we
had exceptionally hard luek with our
battle cruisers, hut the loss of thco
three greut shi does not iu any
measure cripple our eon t ml of the
iu.
Pour I'Iiiik's of llotllo
"The great battle had four phase.
The lir-t opened at 3:13 p. hi., when
our battle cruiser, at a range of ix
miles, joined ne lion with Clennan bat
tle cruiser. Shortly afteiward the
second phase began with the nrrnal
on both side of battleship-, the Her
man arriving ftrM. Hut before thujr
nrriul our three buttle eruier hud
Mown up. MiHedly the result of
gun fire. although iblv the met
their fate from torpedo'..
"Siieh close-range fighting with
lull lie r mixer might be considered u
had toctira, but our fleet, following
lie traditions of the navy, went out
tn engage the enemy and on n nut
f emidition eould do so oulv at
-hull i.ingi-."
Tile llurd ph.i-i il the I'lliMlUe
ini'iil lit li.iltlelii, ulneh never n-
(Continued on page two.)
FOUR KILLED BY
;i
I Hi. I Ml'.l . . -I' i 'llilie
m. .it id, - ure- .lie in i .! il -iii'l
in .v iiipell dullllii li.i- !' en
'mil ill -outllWfstein tllno ii- :i le-
- in of a terrific windstorm during
in- mala. Complete report are t
h ii il to increase the lit "I dud.
The center of the diturtanee v,us
..ii Moeow, tweniy-fic niile from
i ii,' miuil).
t (..iilt a mile widt 1)4 3e0ral
i.i - lolljf wa eut lfi iur vii'im in
(i (P i i . unit
H,iton (m) b iuTv
A .liilfii il Hi -' Hi ''I
ii i'i $ -' in ' 'I
01
WND5
1
BATTLESHIP
WESTFALEN
0
SUNK
German Drcatlnauyht of 18,600 Tons
Added to Steadily Growinn. List of
Vessels Lost iu Great Naval Bat
tleGerman Cruiser Elulnn, and
British Destroyer Shark Also Sunk
Nearly All Men Manninu De
stroyed Vessels Perished British
Losses Estimated at 5000 Men.
LONDON, dune II. The (lei-uian
thuitduitught Wextfalen, of 18,000
toiirsluin lieun added to the steadily
itrowiiiK lint of veKeIn sunk itt the
jtrent'iiiival eiiitHKi'iuent off the ,Iitt
Iitud eniit, Heeiinlinir to a wireless
dimtei friuii Merlin, whieh iivi the
(leiiniiii admiralty nihility tint lun of
thin mirhip.
AdilitioiiM earlier in the day wre
the (lerinnu eniiner IHhinp, dinplHe-
iiiK between IIMIII and .'illlin ton, and
the llritiidi deitroyer Shark, nil the
Ineii who manned the dehtroyer were
lo-t.
l-'le Tlioiisaiul .Men lost
The Intent llritixli .tnteiuent ie
uidiiiK the outcome of the enrei -ineiit
kIiow that the ailmirulty iew
it an not at all unfavorable to tin
llriti-li. It in deelared that tliev
-uiiulit out the UeininiiK, enitiiue I
their entile fleet with inforlor forcw
liuil eomHlled them to put baek to
Hirt and yivc up "hiiv pbm of ac
tion they may have hud."
The loMe on the ItHt ili nido. -tiiuated
at .'(HID men, may be neailv
matched by thoe of the Oeriiirtt-. if
the Intent repoiln on tin ii.i.i.Imt of
(leniiuu WHrhiiM lont mr eoefirmed.
In the Hrilinh eaulty lit nw includ
ed Captain l'rowne and the entire
complement of the lm'tle cruixer
(Jueen Mary, whieh probably had 1m
tweeu DIIO and Un men on li.mnl.
Hear Admiral Horace Houd wiin loul
with the hnttle cruiner Iiiviiuihle.
Two ZepiHilInn Ih.(
Two of the Kepitcliiix v huh p'uycd
mieh an iiiiHiitant part in' 'ho en
irii(ieiiieiil li keeping the (icneiin- in
fnniiei 1 of the tritili fleet' moe-
luenln, were deitio,vl, ueconlinu to
reMHn broiittht in liv Dhiii-Ii li-her-meii,
who deidnw that the entire crew
of one of the aimhiM iierinhed when
their ejafl wim burned.
Wouiided men from the eniiftcemeni
have heitun to arrive in Iuidun,
J-hwred by the eruwila amemlled to
meet them.
Accohlimr to one reort t-ilay,
ttritinh wurnhipn are watching off the
Daiiinb count fur the apMaran of
eight Gemma wiiiliiH which ar? de
clared to hate taken refuge in Dun
ib Mirtn after the North eu battli.
iM-iiii' an I'll twent v-foiir hour to
IcilNc li I).mi-ll iiiilllnl'ltie-.
IDENT
NEW ARMY BILL
WASHINGTON lime S Preiil
ilent WtUon iota slmifil the army
reornauixatiQii tll. first or the im
portant preparedness meaaurei umuv
ed by consresi during th vretnt
benhton. The irenident has been
ftudlng t he bill (arefull) for more
thun a week He used a pen belong.
ing to S niitor Smith, of South Car
olina, who dexlreil it tor a souvenir.
TILLMAN TO LEAD
WAIIIN(i'u. I in. : i ii.in-
lliHi, Tllllliiili ol lln liati u.n ,il eulil-
nuttee aiiiiouni eil tinln tli.it he
wituld lend a tight in tin -in.it-- i
'huiitre the ,.i.il . i i.-i "ii n t n ti lull
no an to pioMiii lur ms biMVie eruin
em uini two dr0ndnaughLn. in tea 4 of
fiQ battle cruntrj mid jyo ijiitlle-
-i.in . jii h- i'i i' . iv tl"
It t ia, y.
Battle Rages
T - J9Sb mm 9'H-." i HNS
" ff I ' A a iJL III I li, ut. - l .-m irftrT" k t - 1 SMa
.-afe" -
For IOI .lavs the Hnttle of VeiMun 1ms Ikhmi hikIiik. Il' liHit
n the. I.euit of ilio city of Venliui. MiiMiiind.sl by the. IVen.li foit nn.l
ualii Mm'ts, has Ik-cii ivduc.il to nilns. A few buildings still stand, but
L BATTLE
F
E
First Engagement Occurred at 4
o'clock in Afternoon at Ranye of
Eight Miles, Second During Night
Following German Torpedo Work
More Effective Than British.
HKItUN, June .' (by wirelc from
a alaff eorreMindeiil of the Auci.
ated 1'tewi ia -SavviHe). The J'irt
naval battle oit a grand scale during
the pteeiit war wim atletided hv re
sults which, according to the infor
mation received here, are highly sat
isfactory to the Oemiau, not ouly
iu reaped of the couiHiralive Inse
of the two fleet, but in the fact that
the (iemiMns maintained the field af
ter the battle. This is shown, Her
man commentators assert, hv the res
cue of the ltntish survivor.
The full tlcrmuii high-sea fleet was
eugiigeil under Mronal comiiuind of
Vice Admiral Scheer, the energetic
Herman commander who succeeded
Adniirul Von I'olil. The Hritish fleet
i now estimated at approximately
twice as strong in gun and ships
that under Admiral Hcheer.
Hat tin In Tw Sections
Detailed reairts bine nut et been
rcecixed, hut the main eiigiigeiucnt
apiuireiilly uceiirtetl alniut li"t miles
-iMilhwt'st of the southern extrciiiils
of Norway and 150 mile otf the
Diini-h coast. The buttle wu- di
vided into two xcctioii. The dux en
gugemenl begun ut about I o'cloek in
the afternoon and continued unnl
durkucsM, or about U o'clock. Tlu
was followed by u serie of Bcpiiinti
ingugement through the night.
The exact range mid courc of tin
ln tight line n't been a-ecrtiUiieil
It i- ii-iiuied llie r.uiiii'-. of the il.n
eugliveinent uile lint e.M nine, pn--lbl
.it .1 iii-l,nne uf nliiMit eiht
(Continued on paga li)
T
FOR COMING WEEK
WAMIlNttToN. Ji.i.e Wuthcr
pl'i'dii'tioiii tor the W'leU beglimtiig
Silli'iiiv. insliedcbv the i,ithiir Ini
rduu tudu.N, su ;
'lii.efcv Htountaltl iMUil plA'UII v-giH,-
mid T'aci'Ple i9oat : '(Itflerallv
i,,,r i,j .. i .i (ri& .,( .i-iojiipi'-
WWA
G
HID
NGMenns
104 Days at Slaughter House
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OF
FLEET'
A.MSTKItDAH, Vl.i London .tune
.!. - Advlcea from Merlin sa Unit Vice
AdmlrHl Schoer, comuiaiuler ot the
Herman battle fleet., wan iu personal
eoiuanil of the German furrea In the
battle off Jutland, while the aeoul
division waa under the direction of
Vice Admiral lllps?r. The Herman
forces consisted of the Herman high
seas fleet, with ilremlnaiighls, older
ships of the line, battle cruisers, all
the llKht sea forces at present In the
North Nou, torpedo destroyers Mini
submarine flotilla.
Admiral Hipper came In contact
with tho enemy at five In the even
ing when ho engaged a siuailinn of
llrltlsh crulsera and light cruisers.
Subsequently the flJtn of both sides
were engaged and the fighting lusted
until nine In the evening. Iater on
in the night there were sharp en
gagements between torpedo destroy
ers and crulsera. The leading Her
man vessels alone sank six modern
destroyers.
(All reports from the Herman ea
forces which partb.ii'Miud In the bat
tle agree on the bravery shown b
the enemy In the long battle. The
crews of the Uuriuun torepdo lontx,
which were sunk have not been heaid
front but the mujoriu of t) ien
on the other vessels which were lost
were rcHcued despite ''" unfatoiahle
weather Aii'shlns mo" valuable aid
in rt'ionuoltcriiiK iieioie and alter
the li(tl&.
T
ADMIRA
SCHEER
COMMAND
GERMAN
JAPANE
LNERS
GRAN
DEMANDS
OF STRUG
UNON
SAN KHAN I I. mi i. June .1.- The
T"iKieu Kaisliu Meumahlp coin
jMinv, one of thi lurgct hue o-rut-ing
between J'acifie eoal ports und
the Orient, today tcniiraril.v grunted
the full demand of the striking union
longihoremen. The dciuund iiielude
wage raises and a closed-anop rule.
Iiiion men expic-ed eonfideiiee
that the other big hipiug- interests
would follow i,uit. The Wf.terfrout
Employers' asoeiiitiou waa in se
.ioii when the Japuue eonianiv iiu
liuunced its accession ' iN) 4uiuuds
of the stribjprs.
The concestion- r,r nmur under
the i'l"'(l lit (ielu-r i' M.lll.lyel II
A 'C. ii". iii N' "
Imttle In the I.Mory of (lie war. ThK i.ihhiU1ih ph tuie was , tuken light
liwnrlio. and kiuna bow nlm.t ov cry liull.llug hi Hue Mnel. one of the
cwn those Imto Ihm'ii so Kulted.by shell fl.v tla'i aie not ImhltuHc.
BIG DREADNAUGHTS
- kku - '- - --" "- - -
ARE SAFE-IN PORT
l THOUGH
J.()NK).. June .: n offlilal
Htatement kIm-II out ioda shows tliul
with a few cxceptloint all the otriici-H
on the linlnclble. queen Mary, In
defatigable. Defence and Black Prlneo
were lost. All the officers of the War
rior except oe were saved. Vice Ad
miral Healty, In command of the
cruiser squadron, was not harmed. -
The Hrltlsh admiralty staled today
that the battleship Marlltorough waa
hit by a torpedo but was towed safoly
to port. The dreadnaught Wamplte
waa damaged by gunfire, the admiral
ty added, but escaped toriiedoes.
According to the offieial report.
Mm Marlborough iiniMt have struck a
nest of submarines as, she escaped
three torpedoes Immediately before
she waa hit by the toniedo.
fJ'he admiralty has reeeived offlcUt
information, It was stated, that the
entire llrltlsh battle fleet with the
exception of the Marlborough, was
coaled and refitted unit nudy for
sea scivlie within a lew lioiu-, aftr '
IU return to port.
SI'UK WK. Wu ,
Not iiiei n l'tt-isciiKi r
li.is-i'iiKKi tiain No.
.1 .i.i " ilnut
iimlee pulling
4. was derailed
ami tell into the Kootenai river near
Kutku, Idaho, toda. The ougtneer,
II. A. McUluu, and Fireman K.
Ueiiipstcr, both of ililbard, Wash
are missing and are believed to have
been killed. The train remained on
the track. .
The engine ran Into a rock slide
seventy feet long and ten feet deep.
The locomotive was submerged. Men
are now searching for the bodies of
Median and Uauipster.
Denjamiu L. fUumpt und Krauk J.
Oerke, mail clerks of SpoUne, were
bruised, but none of Hie pusseuKera
was Injured. A relief ti.un A.t, m.tde
up at Troy, Mont., ami i" -
and injured were taK i i
baggage ear and r
track but did not '
nif'irs
i ie
i wi
i i i i
to to the river whe i
The traik will not le 1 1. ,in il until
l.ile III the il.n.
GREAT
NORTHERN
ENGINE FALLS INTO
EA
RIVER
of Great War
jfih
mm
Bull Moose Leaders Declare Inten
tion of Using Every Influence at
Tliolr Conmmiul to Induce Repub
licans to Nominate Teddy If Fail,
Willing to Conftidor Qthors.
t'lllt'AOO, June :t. Progressive
party leaders lifter conferring today
ilei'lii red their intention of using ev
ery influence at their command to in
duce the republican national conven
tion to nominate Theodore Roosevelt
fur president. If thev fail to make
Roosevelt the republican nominee,
they uy, they are willing to consider
Ike ipialil ient ion of other ciinili
diite. Numerous informal conler
eiice belwei'ii progressive and re
publican group have been held mnl
other are scheduled in the ellmt to
bring about hnmioiiy. Itepubln .m
orguiiixation lender- lu'itarcuilx .hi
doing nothing lo otteiid the I mini
of Hoii-ci'lt in the preliininn i v hi.im
en ver. They are willing, il is -mil,
to let the progressives iljetnte the
I m it v plu I form und u.iine (be enmli
tinle for iee ire-iilihl, lull tliev ale
iuoroiis uppiceil in noiiiiiinlinu
l(iiii-eelt lor pie-nlen!.
They lli'pe In -eleel a mull that
Koom'M'U und In-. 1'iieiiiU can sii
1'iirt on ii pliitl'iriii ii Americanism
nml preuiieilne-. The itrotes- to
believe tlnit Uuii-exell Mill not inn
ii- n third pnitv emiilnliite and that
lie may be induced In inilure oie of
-cw'i'ol ciimli'liite- lion in the field,
tlenrge . JTkili-. elnililiiiill of
tile CXeeutne i iiiiilinttee til llie pro
Ulesivc pally, niil: "We lire lor
Hoosi'M'lt tu llie end and iliist he
shull be iii'iuiiiulcd. We are willing
to meet the' republicans' halfwav in
the intere-t nl Inirinonv und we re
peal Hint i,iiiiiiiii i, not necessarily
piiiliijttii! no Hie iiiitiiin.itiun of
Itllll-I-V I'll
T AT SEATTLE
HKATTI.K, Wu . June ,f. T. C.
Hughes, a non-union dock worker
who was shot earl tol at H - Chi
cago, .Milwaukee and Ml. I'uul wliarf,
probably will recover, m "oiillnw to
Ills doutors. On bullet shattered
arm. another. " d in bttve
xutered his spine, was foiiu I to hava
i i mi uini hM i ii 1 1 -e
.HARMONY CRY
OF PROGRESSIVES
CRIPPLED at pn&uomnM
SUPREME
EFFORT AN
AT VERDUN
Battle Reaches Point of Unprece
dented Violence as Germans Mass
Reinforcements on Right Bank of
Mctise, Supported by Heavy Artil
lery, in Effort to Bring Long
Drawn Attack Upon Fortress to a
Close Main Lines Not Essentially
Changed.
PARIS, June 3. The Iwttlo ut
Verdun reached a point of unprec
edented violence In the lust forty
eight hours. The Uoriuium inndo u
formidable effort to nines rolnforco
meats on the right bank of the Muimo.
supported by a -great ntimbor ot
heuvy pieces drawn from other fronts.
The concentration of Herman foreoa
Is taken hero to Indicate n supremo
attempt to bring the long drawn out
attnek on the fortress to u suooosti
fill Issue and to prevont a Konorut
offomlvo by tho iilllos. Donplto tho
Intensity of the attuok, Involving
enormous lossoa, the French official
accounts say that the main linos nru
not essuntlnlly chunged. Tho turthost
point reached by the Hermann waa
houses on tho outskirts ot Dmuloup.
Tho main portlnn ' ot the town Is
strongly held by the Krencli.
Fighting ut Vniiv
(I'AltIS, June 3. Iu tho eourso of
repeated and violent attiteka Inst
night on Kurt Vaux, on the Vorduii
front, east of the Meusa, tho HuruuuiH
penetrated a deep dlteh north ot the
main French positions. The Interior
of the works, the war office an
nouncement of today says, Ii stJU
held by the French.
Except for this gain, the its tew eut
sss, the Hermans were repulsed with
heavy losses.
Spirited fighting continued In the
Argonue. weat of the Variluu sector.
Two Herman attacks weat ot I.a Pllle
Morte were beaten back.
Tako Hellish Position
IJKItUN, June 3. The rldgea of
the heights southeast or .illeneke,
southeast of Ypres, Itelglum, ami the
Hrltlsh iHwItlons lieyoud have been
csptiired h storm h Herman truoM,
the wur of fli e rtiiiiomii eil today.
L
('llll'AHo, .Ium ' Piiiug ut au
nveni-e inie of Hi.iiiuj mi hour, t'hi-engoiiu-,
sixteen ubrciisi, marched to
day through ting-bedecked streets iu
the prepiireduei.s dcmonstratloN, Dm
grcutcM prnnde the city aver saw.
Kstimules a ere made thai Dm total
number of marchers would apjiro
iuiatc U'lti.lKHl.
Paradco, lo the number of (UK731
had (utsscd the rcviewUyt atanit aftor
four hours of inarching.
It wo- an unusually dignified par
ade, nor was there ever in Chteaitu
such a di-play of paliiotie fsttutows.
I iu ring the first two hours of Dm
I to rude an (inharmonious banner of
huge proportion wu strung aeroaa
the Lake view building. It read:
"There are 1 00,000 luurehiutf ia
thi lutrude. There are 5,0M,(MH)
I. inner and 2,5041,000 worlauat
against' preta redness. Are you aura
uu are light f tk sura you w
nglit."
Tbous.nils of marcher jeered Um
banner unit it waa finally ealbit Iu
the attention of tho t4tit, WBtt M
mined it.
The suffragists, about lifty of
I hem, held a private parade of Hair
own, ted by Miss Abe Paul, atnitr
iiinii oi the t'ongre-sional I'uion for
W "in. m tvit ti.it:c.
N GAGO
PARADES
REPAREDNESS
. 000
&
4'