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DEUTSCHLAND
LEISURELY SAILS MAKE ADVANCES
TOWARDS SEA
At 4 o'clock Giant Submarine Still
Five Miles From Fortress' Monroe
Incoming Passengers State Only
One Foreign Warship Sighted
Buoys May Support Net in Channel
NKWTOKT NEWS, Vu Auk. 2.
Tim Deutschhind wus reported off
Tliilllile Shoals lighthouse uliout four
or five miles from Fortress Monroe
at 4 o'clock. She seemed to be head
ing for Fortress Monroe.
Passengers arriving today on an
Old Dominion liner from New Yttrk
reported that when the ship approach
ed the Virginia eapes only one for
eign warship was sighted. They told
of seeing an object lying low in the
water, with two masts visible, toward
which the foreign cruiser was head
ing. It looked like two huge buoys
W'ilh masts above and some of the
passengers thought it might he sup
porting a net. It lav just outside the
three mile limit where the channel
is narrow.
At Slow Sliced.
Although last night she was said
to he making sixteen knots, she ap
parently had been proceeding since
at. a much slower rate of speed. On
the trip up the bay after her arrival
off the capes only seventeen hours
was required for the run from Hamp
ton Roads to Tialtimore.
At 2 o'clock the Doiitschlnnd had
not been sighted at the capes. Dur
ing the early afternoon a two-funnel
warship came near the three mile
limit for a few moments and then dis
appeared. .. Stopiied on tho Way.
t'Al'H HENRY, Va., Aug. 2 The
(lerman merchant submarine Deutsch-
laad hud 'not been sighted here at
2:il0 o'clock this afternoon, twenty
one hours after she Lift Baltimore
on her return trip to Gorinnnv. Ma
rine men believed the boat had stop
ped somewhere up Chesapeake bay,
as not more than seventeen hoars
would have been necessary for her
to make the trip here even at a mod
crate rale of speed.
The last report from the vessel
came at 0:30 o'clock this mornin
when she was jilted at Tangier
island, sixty miles up the hay. At
that hour she was under way and
was attended by the tug Thomas
Timmins.
Shortly after noon today a two fun-
nelcd warship came near the three
mile limit line for a short time but
later put back to sea. Only one al
lied warship was sighted off here dur
in"' the -daw
BERLIN, Aug. 2. The capture
during the month of July of more
than 18,000 Russians Is announced
by Austro-Hungarian army headquar
ters In Its statement of August 1.
The official Austro-Hungarian
headquarters report of today an
nounces that the situation all along
Iho Russian front is unchanged.
No change in conditions along the
Italian front has occurred, says the
announcement. Attacks by two Ital
ian companies east of Sissctte were
repulsed. 1
SAN" FRANCISCO, Aug. 2 Indict
ments, charging murder were voted
early today hy the grand jury against
five of the persons now under arrest
in connection with the preparedness
parade bomb outrage of ten days ago,
according to reports current about
the Hall of Justice. Those who are
said to have been indicted arc: War
ren K. Billings, Thomas Mooney,
Mrs. Rena Mooney, Isreal Weinberg
and Edward Nolan. Two "John Doe"
indictments asked by District At
torney Flckert against persons, not
yet under arrest were refused it is reported.
ALLIED FORCES
E FRONT
Both British and French Win Ground
French Gain the More Important
Germans Renew Attack on Ver
dun and Capture Height Austrians
Decisively Repulsed by Italians..
LONDON, Aug. 2. Advances
along the Somnie front in Northern
France have been made by both
French and British.
The French gain, tho more import
ant, is admitted by Berlin. It was
effected between Hem wood and
Monacu farm, near the river, where a
strongly held German work was cap
tured. The Gorman trenches, Bays
the Berlin report, had been com
pletely demolished.
Tho British made their progress
east of Pozleres as the result of hand
to hand fighting. Tho Germans were
on the aggresslvo west of High wood,
but were unable to get beyond the
British fire barrier in an attempt to
recapture lost ground.
(jiiiet on Kastem Front.
Little indication of the progress of
events on the Russian front is con
tained in today's official report from
Petrograd, which records merely rifle
and artillery duels at various points
and the repelling of minor attacks
on Russian positions. The German
war office declares that several Rus
sian attackr in the Stokbod sector
were beaten off.
'Before Verdun, whero the Germans
have been violently attacking cast of
the Meuse, they have captured a
height northwest of Fort. Souville
The French admit tho forcing back
of their lines for a short distance.
Gorman Admissions.
BERLIN", Aug. 2. On the high
road between Marlcourt and Clery, In
the region of the River Sommo, the
Frencli troops penetrated "to our
completely demolished trenches,'
says the official statement issued to
day by tho ocrmnn army head
quarters. The Germans captured a
hill in the salient northeast of Fort
Souville, in the region of Verdun.
With regard to the operations on
the Eastern front, the statement
says: Several Russian attacks against
the German positions in the Stokbod
sector broke down.
French Own Success,
PARIS, Aug. 2. North of the
river Somme last night tho French
troops took a powerfully fortified
German work between Hem wood
and Monacu farm, it was officially
announced by the French war de
partment this afternoon.
On the right bank of the river
Meuse, nortli of the fortress of Ver
dun, there was a scries of violont
cngagaments throughout tho night at
Vaux-le-Chapitre wood and Chenois,
extending to the east as far as to the
south of Damloup.
(Continued on Page Two.)
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MEDFORD
SIR ROGER TO
BE EXECUTED
Lord Robert Cecil States That There
Will be no Reprieve ,(or Knight
Convicted of High Treason for Con
spiring With Germany Against
British Government in Irish Revolt
LONDON, A lit,'. 2. Lord Robert
Cecil today authorized the Associat
ed Press to state that Roger Case
ment will be executed tomorrow.
There will be no reprieve, Lord Hubert
leelared.
LONDON, A hi?. 2 Gavin Duffey
linger Casement's solicitor, said this
afternoon that lie hud reason to be
lieve there would be; no reprieve in
the ease of the former knight, who is
to he executed by bunging nt l'entun
ville prison tomorrow morning. Mr.
Duffey had not received word this
morning of any change in the plans
for the execution by hanging at, il
o'clock Thursday morning of his
client at l'entonville prison.
Petition Received.
Premier Asquith had received an
extensively signed petition from Ire
land, but beyond a formal acknowl
edgment be had not further coinmun
cnted with its originators.
Casement, according to Solicitor
Duffey, who sees the condemned man
frequently, remains unconcerned. He
no longer looks dejected or depressed
and betrays no emotion as the hour
for his execution approaches.
Gavin Duffey, counsel for the for
mer knight, was responsible for the
statement that the condemned man
has embraced the Catholic, religion
since the passing of tho dcutb sen
tence, having received instructions
and daily ministrations from a priest
visiting his cell.
K.vociilion Irivate.
Mr. Duffey declared also that the
prisoner bad now seen and bade? fare
well to his nearest relatives, who call
ed and spent some time with him at
the jail. The doomed man is report
ed as unusually cheerful, bearing
himself as one unconcerned.
The execution, set for 0 o'clock to
morrow morning will be private.
LONDON, Aug. 2. Tho South
Shields Gazette says the Dutsh
steamship, Zecland, which was on her
way from a Scottish port to a foreign
port, has been sunk by a German sub
marine, after the crew had been
ordered to take to the boats.
The Zeeland was of 1,239 tons,
gross, and was built in 1907. She
was 231 feet long, 34 feet beam and
14 feet dee;'. Her home port was
Rotterdam.
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MERCY IS DENIED 1
TORONTO, Out., Aug. 2. Esti
mates today of the number of dead
in the bush flies In northern On
tario Saturday and Sunday are put
ut 500 by rofugees arriving from the
various localities In tho flro swept
zone. From many sections, known
to have been sprinkled with settlers,
no word lias been received at any of
the northern towns of refuge and this
Is taken to mean that all have
perished.
A score of refugees, some with
burns and all showing signs of suf
fering, arrived here today with
stories of thrilling escapes.
Fred Miller, who was postman and
stage driver from Matheson to Mon
roe, told how he and it few others
tried to escape in the small stace.
Tho flames caught them. They cut
the horses loose, fled into a wet ditch
and there fought off the flames that
burned their clothing and scorched
their bodlos. In coming from the
burnod district these refugees passed
body after body, chiefly of women
and children, lying In roads In f.'on:
of clearings. In all they counted hi
who had perished.
L. C. Coleman of San Francisco,
formerly of Medford Is visiting the
Valley with his grandson, looking
after business interests.
SUBMARINE DEUTSCHLAND NOW
ATCiUKT '-.
ROGER CASEMENT
TROLLEY STRIKE
El
NEW YORK, Aug. 2. New York
state and city authorities uro pre
paring today to deal with' ft groat.
strike of street railway employes,
which, if begun, is expected to tie.
ventton the latter part of this woolt
way service of the city.
Officers of the Amalgamated As
sociation of Street Hallway Men, who
are In charge of the efforts to organ
ize the employes in order to onforco
a demand for recognition of tho union
and an increase in pay, said today
that they wore nearly ready to lire
sent their demands to the New York
Railways Company, operating most
of the surface lines in tho borough
of Manhattan.
Officers of tills company aro pre
paring to resist the demands of the
men and are establishing dormitories
and training new employes In the
operation of cars, to take the places
of strikers.
ROME, Aug. 2. via London.
The Austrians suffered a severe de
feat In Monday's engagements In" the
Aslleo valley, the war office an
nounced today. Their attacks on
Hie Italian lines at Monto Sclilgglo,
Castetiato and .Monte Clmono wcro
repulsed with extremely heavy losses
for the. attacking forces, the official
statement declares.
SAILING DOWN CHESAPEAKE B
ASQUITH TELLS
ALLIES' AIMS IN
TRADE ALLIANCE
Object to Convince Central Powers
That Entente Powers are Warring
in Unity and to Make Preparations
for Aftermath Restoration of Bel
gium and Serbia to be Insisted On.
LONDON, Aug. 2. Premier As
quilli on opening the discussion in the
house of commons today on the reso
lution of the Paris economic, confer
ence said the British government had
entered the conference with two ob
jects in view. The first was to con
vince the central powers that the en
lento allies, whatever their views on
the economic policy, were resolved
to wage war in complete unity Jind de
terminal ion in economic as in mili
tary spheres. The second was to
lumke preparations for the period fol
lowing the declaration of peace, in
view of the known altitude and will
of the (lerimius.
"Our eyes have been opened,'' said
the premier, "as to the inclining of the
manifold ramiiicalions of the German
system of economic penetration and
cnnitncrcinl and financial control of
vital interests and the use to which
with advantage this system could be
put ill lime id' war."
(terimui Advantages.
"Germany," Mr. Asquith said
"would he animated with the same
spirit when the war is over. The
Germans already were organizing
their industries for an attack on the
markets of the entente allies," he
said. "And for a vigorous, if possi
ble utliick on neutral markets."
The Germans would start with ob
vious advantage, the premier contin
ued, through their action in destroy
ing the works'nnil factories in Hie in
vaded countries and because of the
fuel thai the.v hud a large maritime
fleet safely interned in German anil
neutral ports, il would be necessary
to make preparations for the coming
of peace and the resolutions of Hie
conference represented the general
(Continued on Pago Two.)
GENERAL STRIKE
IS AN FRANCISCO, Aug. 2. Tho
striko which began yesterday on five
restaurants was followed by n lock
out by 150 restaurants, hotels and
cafes and cafeterias today. All the
largo hotels ordered their union help
out of tho buildings, following an
retaliatory lockout declaration by tho
Rostaiirant Men's Association. Half
of the K() members closed their
'doors, while the balance were run
ning with depleted force. It was pre
dicted that by night r,000 union culi
nary workers would be out of work.
AY ON HER HOMEWARD VOYAGE
XO. 113
TRAINMEN VOTE
FAVORABLY FOR
GENERALSTRIKE
Result of Ballots So Far Counted
Authorize Four Brotherhoods Of
ficials to Declare Strike If Eight
Hour Day Not Granted Votes
Counted From East and South.
NEW YORK, Aug. 2. Whon 200.
000 of the 400,000 ballots cast by
members of four brotherhoods, who
are voting on the question of calling
a general strike on 225 railroads had
been counted at noon today it was an
nounced that "a preponderant num
ber of the men are In favor of a
strike."
Votes of Kuat and South.
The ballots counted today aro
mostly votes of the eastern and
southern members of the "Dig Four"
railway brotherhoods. Tho westorn
and southwestern chairman will ar
rive In a fow days with the ballots
from their respective communities. It
is expected that the lowest number
of votes cast in favor ot the strike
will come from tho eastern mombors
of tho railway unions. However, no
matter what the number of votes
cast against tho strike by tho east
ern men, there is practically no doubt
that the majority of them favor the
strike, it was assorted. Thus far, the
largest number of votos In favor of
the strike has been cast by the mem
bers from the south.
An official of the Southeastern As
sociation of Trainmen, who Is In close
touch with the situation, declared to
day that 99 1-2 per cent of the mem
bers of tho four orders ot railway
workers of the south favor the strike.
Complete by August 8. .
It had been expocted that tho
counting ot tho vote would be com
plete uy August 7, but at the rate
tho count Is bolng mnde, It ought to
bo completod beroro that unlosB there
should bo some unforsoon delay.
(A committee of 50 men continued
today the counting of the strike vote
cast by 400,000 omployos on 225
railroad systems In the United
Slates. Timothy Shea, who Is In
chargo of the counting, said he be
lieved the vote will bo almost unani
mous to quit work if the railroad of
ficials persist in their rotusal to
grant the damands of the men for an
eight hour day and time and a halt
overtime.
Tho counters expected to finish to
day tho counting of the voto In tho
eastern territory. Thoy will then take
up tho western vote. When tho final
result Is known a mass meeting will
be held to explain tho controvcrsey to
tho 11(10 chairman of the adjustment
committees of the four brotherhoods
of railroad workers, who havo
brought tho ballots bore to be
counted.
1A meeting of tho national con
ference committee of tho railways
will be held here next Tuesday to
make another attompt to settle tho
dlflcuitles between tho railroads and
tho men.
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