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MEDFORD OREGON1. MONDAY, ATJfiUKT 7. 191fi
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BRITISH ROUT
TURKISH FORCES
ATTACKING SUEZ
Turks Drawn Into Trap by Retreat
ing Cavalry and Flanks Turned
Entire Brigade Surrenders 3 1 45
Prisoners Taken and Attacking
Force Pursued 18 Miles.
LONDON', Aug. 7. The recent at
tempt of the Turks to reach the Suez
canal has proven a greater failure
than the earlier reports Indicated.
Lieutenant General Sir Archibald
James Murray, commander of' the
British troops in Egypt reports today
that besides taking more than 3,000
prisoners In the battle with the Turks
at Roman!, his forces inflicted very
heavy losses on them and had con
tinued the pursuit of tho retreating
troops for 18 miles, clearing the
Turks from the Katia basin.
1IokM to Iiiltiv4K Arabs.
Military writers are unable to
fathom the reason why the Turks
ventured upon tliclr attack. The
only conclusion reached is that the
Turkish military authorities were
mislead as to British preparations for
defense of the canal and hoped to
make an impression on rebellious
Arabs, who are extending their hold
on Important places in Arabia.
The Turkish advance as far a Ro
man! was made in the face of the
greatest difficulties, their six-inch
guns being dragged across the desert
by oxen after relays of planks had
boen placed to prevent the wheels
sinking Into the Band.
The dispatch says the cavalry was
cent out to entice the enemy, who
had shown a disposition to assume
the offensive. The British horsemen
fought an admirable rear guard ac
tion, drawing the Turks on until
their flankB were turned to the
mounted division. A whole brigado
was compelled to surrender. Among
fhe prisoners were 70 flermans, in
cluding 36 officers. A complete bat
tery of German guns were also taken.
Turkish Prisoners.
The number of unwounded Turks
captured by the British at the battle
of Roman! was 3,145, according to an
official statement, issued by the war
office today. The statement says that
tho Turks were pursued for 18 miles.
The pursuit continued beyond the
Katla, which is 23 miles east of the
Suez canal.
"The not results of the battle of
Romani are (he destruction of more
than one-fourth of tho Turkish effec
tiveness and tho pushing of the re
mainder out into the blazing desert
beyond the Katla oases," said Major
General F. B. Maurice, director of
military operations of the imperial
general staff, In explaining to the As
sociated Press today the significance
of the latest operations In the near
east.
Canal's Safety Assured.
"The Turks not only made a fron
ial attack on our entrenched posi
tions, hut attempted to get around
our left flank. Our artillery. Infan
try and cavalry co-operated not only
in repelling, but in attacking the
enemy, with such good results that
ho is lib) ti have an uncomfortable
time recrosslng the desert at this
season of the year. Our advanco has
reached within a short distance of
the edge of tho Katla oases.
There Is no question the Germans
encouraged the latest Turkish at
tompt on the canal in an effort to
prevent us from sending any of our
forces to the western front, but the
distslrous results shows we have pro
vided adequately for the safety of the
Suez canal. In accomplishing this
we suffered very few casualties,
many of which consisted of slight
wounds."
REPORTED TO BE DYING
OMAHA, Neb., Aug. 7. The phy
sicians who are attending John M.
Thurston, former senator from Ne
braska, who in dangerously 111 In a
local hospital, announced today that
the patient would not survive the
day. He had a relapse Sunday and
has been sinking slowly. He was
taken to the hospital four weeks ago
after a heat prostration.
OF REN0MINAT10N TO
BE BY SEPTEMBER 15
WASHINGTON, Aug. 7.
President Wilson's formal
notification of his renomiua-
tion will not be deferred later
than September 15, It was do-
elded at a white house con-
fcrence today, regardless of
whether congress has ad-
journed by that date. The
decision was reached after
the president bad talked over
campaign plans at length
with Vance McCornitck,
chairman, and Homer Cum-
4 mings, vice chairman of the fr
fr democratic national commit- 4
tee.
I
NEW YORK, Aug. 7. Today
marked tho beginning of tho sixth
week of the epidemic of infantile
paralysis and the daily bulletin, is
sued by the health department,
showed that the . plague continues
unabated. During the 24 hours pre
ceding 10 o'clock this morning, 44
children died of the disease in the
boroughs of New York city and 145
new cases wer0 reported.
Since the Inception of the epidemic
there have been 5,168 cases, of which
number 1,143 proved fatal.
Thr.co new cases were reported in
Jersey City today.
An apiieal was issued today to per
sons, who had suffered from infan
tile paralysis and who have recovered
to give small quantities of their blood
so that serum could bo obtained and
administered to those now victims of
similar attacks. It was stated that
this appeal was made at the request
of the department of health and of
several physicians, who are foremost
in the fight against the plague.
Physicians said that owing to a
lack of serum with which to make
numerous conclusive tests, its value
has not yet been fully proved, but In
dicated that there was a possibility
that if administered early enough it
would prevent paralysis and save the
patient from becoming crippled.
There has been much discussion of
this claim and it lias been questioned
by other physicians.
ASKS DELAY IN
X KV YORK", An-. 7. New York
shippers plan tn ask tlie interstate
commerce commission to defer for
I'niir months the date when the pro
posed higher trans-continental freight
tariffs filed by the railroads shall
go into effect, it was announced here
today. The date now fixed is Septem
ber 1.
Meanwhile the commission is to
hold ii hearing in Washington in Au
gus J 4 to consider protests against
the tariffs, wliirli would lie operative
between Pacific coast terminals and
intermediate points on one hand find
eastern points on the oilier. It is said
that more than (il)ll protests luivc been
filed.
VOTE IS COUNTED
NEW YORK, Aug. 7. The task of
counting the votes of approximately
400,000 railroad employes on the
question of calling a general strike
in the event that their demands for
an eight-hour day and time and a
half for pay in overtime, recently de
nied, was completed just before noon
today, It was announced at head
quarters here of the four railroad
brotherhoods. Although no official
statement could be obtained as to the
result, it was learned from authorlta
tlve sources that the vote was over
whelmingly In favor of a strike.
RUSSIANS WIN
FORTIFIED TOWNS
NORTH GALIGIA
Brussiloff Pressing Offensive Against
Teutons, Taking Positions Along
Sereth and Graberka Rivers
Heavy Fighting Continues at Ver
dunCounter Attacks In Somms.
LONDON, Aiisr. (.General ISrus
siloff is pressing his offensive ugnmst
the Teutonic allies in northern Gnli
cia where the passage of the River
Sereth was recently forced by the
Russians along a wide front south
of Rroily. Petrograd today reports
further udvances fur the Russians,
willt the capture of strongly fortified
positions along the Sereth and the
(iruberkit.
The forward push of tlio Russians
in this sector is not only bringing
them closer to Leinberg on the direct
line of advance, but is pointed out by
military critics as likely to endanger
the entire Austrian front along the
Stripn, to the south, which is rapidly
being outflanked.
On Verdun Front.
Heavy fighting continues on the
western front in the Verdun region.
According to Paris, however, the Ger
mans have been entirely unsuccessful
in their efforts to regain ground lost
to the French in General Nivcllc's
vigorous offensive of last week.
An attack on the Thiauninnt wood
is declared to have been checked lit
the outset by the French barrier fire
while an assault in the Vaux-Chupi-tre
woods was broken up by the artil
lery and machine guns.
In the field of the allied offensive
along the Somme today's Paris state
ment reports only artillery activity,
which, however, was intense in the
region of Cliaulnes north of the riv-
Gcrnmn Keixirt.
lil'.RLIN, Aug. 7. German Iroops
have recaptured portion; of the
trench which had been taken by the
British near Pozieres, on th Somme
front, it was officially announced to
day l).v the German army headquar
ters.
In the Carpathians, the German
statement adds, German troops have
ginned the Plaik and Deeskowuta
heights on the ( hcrcinocli river.
LONDON, Aug. 7 Several small
counter attacks bv the Germans east
of Pozieres last night were repulsed,
the war office announced today. The
Germans arc bombarding British posi
tions between the Ancre and the
Somme.
Itussinn teMrt.
PETROGRAD, Aug. 7. Further
successes for the Russians along the
Sereth and Graberka rivers in north
ern Galicia south of Ilrmly we're an
nounced by the war office today. The
Russians captured strongly fortified
positions in the region of the village
of Zvvjin and Renuiv.
PARIS, Aug. 7. The repulse of
German attacks at Thiaiiiiiont anil in
the Vuux and Chapitre woods in the
Verdun sector is announced in the of
ficial statement issued bv the French
war office this afternoon.
The statement records a vigorous
artillery duel north of the S-nime
and in the region of ( haiilnes. The
French screen fire checked the Ger
man attack at Thiaiiniont. In the
Vmix-Chupit re woods the Germans
nrcccded their attack by a heavy bom
bardment but thcr efforts to advance
were frnslrated by the machine gun
and rifle lire of Hie French.
$1,250,000 VALUE
NORFOLK, Vs., Aug. 7. Apprais
ers appointed by the federal district
court today fixed the value of the
liner Appum at $ I, 'J."i(, 0(10. Soon af
terward counsel njipcHrcd to argue a
motion that the ship be turned over to
her Kngli-h owners under bond pend
ing appeni from the court's decision
against the Herman prize crew which
brought the Appain into American
watei'a.
iTIEGREI
WASllllVfiTOY A.r -,
After conferences witli repro-
sentalives of several of tho
big eastern railroads and the
Switchmen's union of North
America, G. W. W. Hanger of
the I'nited States board of
mediation and conciliation re-
ported to headquarters here
r today that he expected nil
" agreement to be signed before
night submitting to a ill ilia-
lion differences between the
curriers and the union over
" overtime pay1 and hours of
service. '
T
IN EAST AFRICA
LONDON, Aug. (7. General Louis
Botha, premier of the Union of South
Africa, has arrived ill German Hast
Africa to witness what Is believed
here to be the last phase of tho opera
tions against Germany's one remain
ing colony. General Hotlia was
present at tho recent fighting north
of the German Central railway which
resulted in a British advance lo and
occupation of the lines at Kllimatlnde
and other points.
Meanwhile, with tho occupation of
Ujiji by the Belgians, and of Sudani
and other coast ports by the British,
the Germans apparently, are afforded
only tho opportunity of retreating
Into the southeastern corner of the
colony, where the Portuguese, in
tholr East African possession, are
awaiting them.
Rapid progress in tho southward
drive of the British through German
Hast Africa is reported in an official
statement Issued -today. The Ger
mans have been driven from tho lino
of the Central railroad at Kllfms-
tinde and other points, says the re
port from General Jan Christian
Smuits, commanding tho British ex
pedition, and are being pursued by
the British forces.
General Smuits states that the
minor part of Sail an I (on the Indian
ocean) was occupied by our naval
forces on August 1, slight opposition
only, being experienced. Other naval
operations are in progress at various
points along the coast line.
Having reached the German Cen
trnl railroad at Killmatlnde, Dodoina
and Kikomho, Lieutenant Colonel
Vandeventor, pursuing the enemy
forces, dislodged them from this area
In the direction of Maparla.
PEACE EFFORTS
END IN FAILURE
NHW YORK, Aug. 7. The efforts
of Mayor Mltchcl and of Public Scrv-
ice Commissioner Straus to settle ibe
street railway strike In New York
failed today. After a protracted
mooting the directors or the New
York Hallway company declined at
this time to ratify the tentative
agreement, proposed by the two pub
lie officials as a basis for settlement.
NEW YOUK. Aug. 7. A peaceable
end of the strike on the New York
railway company's surface -ar lines,
which began Friday night was In
prospect today. Meetings of the
organizations of the union and of the
officials of the railway companies
waa called at 1 1 o'clock today to con
aider proposals ot settlement, which
already had been approved by I'resl
dent Shouts of the company and by
representatives of the Amalgamated
Association of Street and Klectric
Railway Employes of America. These
proposals were described by Mayor
Mltchel as a basis for settlement.
Leaders of both sides of the contro
versy promised to recommend them
for ratification by the directors of
the company and by the strikers.
BIG SUBMARINE
TRAVELING OFF
MAINE COAST
Huge Submersible Reported... by In
coming Steamer May be Bremen
or Deutschland Submerges When
Signalled No American Subma
rines in Vicinity.
MACH1AP PORT, Mo., Aug. 7.
Captain Small ot the Cross Island
coast guard station reported this
morning that his Btation had sighted
a large submarine westbound. Its
nationality could not be determined,
but the captain said he had no doubt
that it was an undersea craft. Tho
submarine was coming to tho surface
when it was sighted and after run
ning awash 15 minutes, again sub
merged. It was thought that the ves
sel might be the German Bubmarlno,
Bremen. So far as can be learnod,
thcro are no United States subma
rines on the Maine coast.
Tho lookout, who sighted tho sub
marine, inter said that ho picked the
vessel up in clear weather fivo miles
to tho southeast. As tho vessel came
to the surfaco, tho lookout said he
heard several blasts from the signal
horn at tho lighthouso on Seal Island,
a British posesslun.
It is believed that tho keeper of the
lighthouse was signalling to the
keeper at tho Grand Manan light,
also British owned, that a submarine
had been sighted.
Immediately after tho whlstlo
sounded the submarine submerged
A few moments later a lia.o set in
and it was lmposslbl6 to Bee more
than four miles off Cross Island.
Lowell W. Dunn, the lookout on
Cross Island, lator reported that he
had sighted a second submarine, con
siderubly smaller than tho first ono.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 7. Navy of
fleers said today no Amorlcan sub-
murines wore known to be anywhere
In tho vicinity of Cross Inland. Thoy
thought the boat sighted thore might
be the German merchant submersi
ble Deutschland on her homeward
voyage or her sister ship the Bremen,
bound ill for the United Stales.
LONDON, Aug. 7.T-WHth tho ex
ception of a portion . ot tho coal
miners or South Wales and the cotton
brokci'B of Lancashire, the British
working people today --lowally ac
cepted the decision of the govern
ment that holidays should bo posi
tioned until Hie demand for muni
tions was not urgent. The South
Wales miners' unions decided early
last week to observe today bank
holiday one of Great Britain's na
tional holidays, as usual, but later
reversed their decision upon repre
sentations by the authorities that
coal was necessary to the continued
working of munition factories.
Despite this decision holiday book
ings this morning broke all records.
Thousands of miners and their fam
ilies left for the seaside, a slop which
menus that, many mines will be work
ed only part of the time for the most
of this week. In the cities business
w-as carried on as usual, while the
munition factories worked ut full
pressure.
POPE TO PROTEST
PARIS, Aug. 7. The pope, after
a careful study ot the protest against
the deportation of Inhabitants of
Northern Frame, has decided to
make a protest to Germany, accord
ing to a news dispatch from Rome,
received here.
The protest was sent to the pope
by the bishop of Lille and the arch
bishop of llhelms. It. Is stated that
the pope will ask llerlln thai at least
women and young giris be sent beck
to their homes and that he will pub
licly express bis reprobation of the
action of the German military au
thorities, if his protest Is Ignored.
ITALIANS CAPTURE
RO.MK, Aug. 7. Italian
troops have captured strong
Austrian positions commund
ing communication between
the Travennnzes valley anil
the Sure lorrent in the Gli
der valley in the Tofnna re
gion. On the lower lsonzo
(he lliiliaus gained possession
of nearly the whole of llil!
No. S." and held it against vio
lent counter attacks. Priso
ners taken in yostcrdny's
fighting by the lluliiin number
IlliOO. A laree amount of am
munition mid gnus also were
captured.
I
E
NEW YOUK, Aug. 7. With two
persons dead and many prostrations
during tho last 12 hours, indications
woro that today would break all pre
vious records for oxcesslve humidity.
Although tho temperature at 10 a. m.
was only 7S, three degrees lower
than at tho same hour yesterday, the
humidity registered 9!) per cent, five
por cent hlghor than at the same
hour yosterdny and within one por
cent of the highest attained any day
this year.
CHICAGO, Aug. 7. Little, It any,
relief from the present heat wave,
was In sight early today, particularly
with reference to Chicago and Imme
diate territory. The only degreo of
mitigation, promised by the local foro
'WHtot was a partly cloudy sky, but
oven this was hailed witli a measure
of relief, in view of tho discomforts
ht yesterday. Three deaths, directly
attributalilo to tho heat of yestorday,
were reported last night, while six
others wore drowned in seeking re
lief in tho lako from tho blazing sun.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 7. Showers
tonight or tomorrow over much of
the country east ot tho Mississippi
are counted upon by the weather bu
reau to bring some measure of relief
from the heat wave. An area of high
pressure continues to send up
warmth from the south Atlantic
however, and no marked drop in tem
perature is forecasted. Unseasonably
hot weather prevails over tho upper
Mississippi valley, the Ohio valley
and the upper lake region.
HUGHES TALKS TO
DETROIT, Midi., Aug. 7. Charles
K. Hughes, speaking to 40 manufac
turers of Detroit and vicinity, em
ploying nearly lna.iMM) men, con
gratulated them upon what ttiey had
done for the welfare of their em
ployes, told them that the democ
racy of the United Stales would not
stand for a continuation of "this al
leged strife between capital and
labor" and declared that tho Ameri
can workman should not bo regarded
as a mere economic unit, but as a
"fellow worker, a human being."
Mr. Hughes' address was im
promptu and followed a brief Bpeech
by .1. M. Eaton, spokesman for the
manufacturers, who outlined the wel
fare measures for employes taken by
Industrial concerns here and sug
gested that tho nominee eti'lorse a
movement looking to tho formation
of a national welfare association of
manufacturers. Mr. Hughes said he
regarded the suggestion very favor
ably. QUITS CONGRESS TO BF.
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR
WASHINGTON, Aug. 7. Iicp.e
M'litutive Stephens, recently made
lieutenant t'overnor of California no
tified Speaker ('lurk today that he
hail filed his rcMeuution us a member
of the hou.se wilh the California an
thoritics.
EDITORS RETURN
E
Sunday Sees Record Attendance at
Lake, With 101 Autos and 458 Vis
itors Superintendent Marshall
Greets Editors and Strahorn Asks
Support of Proposed Railroad.
The presence of 11,1 delegates of
the Oregon Stuie Editorial associa
tion, their Mcdford drivers and
escorts, in addition to u heavy tourist
travel, swelled attendance at Crater
Lake park yesterday to tho largest
proportions in the history of tho park.
1(11 cais and 4,18 persons registered
at lieadipiarlers, exceeding the record
established a year ago during tho
Knights of Pytl.ias conclave when 4:17
persons and 117 cars wero registered.
The editors returned Monday, well
pleased with their entertainment and
in raptures over Crater lake.
The first ear in the procession cur
rying the visiting editors pulled away
from the Mcdford- hotel ut 12::I0
o'clock Sunday morning, following
the banquet tendered by the Mcdford
Commercial club. Others' followed at
Intervals until 0:30 o'clock when
slarler lien Sheldon checked out the
last of the :i:t cars pressed into ser
vice nnil himself off for tho lake.
Trip Most KiicccMMfiil.
The trip itself was uniformly sue
essl'ul and enjoyable, many stopping
for lunch at Prospect and viewing
the Natural Hridge, Rogue River
Gorge, and Mill Creek Fulls. Arriv
ing at the lake the guests spent the
hours until the campfirc in tho even
ing climbing the surrounding peaks,
taking the trail tq tho water's edge or
simply standing on the rim und en
joying the ever changing beauties of
the lake.
In the evening when Hie inner man
of the last of the crowd hud been
satisfied anil all were sealed in ' a,
great circle before the fireplace in the
reception room of the lodge, President
K. F. lSrodie introduced Will G. Steel,
superintendent of the park, whose ap
pearance brought the entire circle to
its feet in sponluneoiis recognition
and tribute to the man who has made
a dream of a wonderful Crater Lake
National park (Mime true.
IlistoiTy of Park front Inn.
Seventeen years of struggles, dis
appointments and rebuffs followed by
fill lil 1 1 1 1 1 -1 i ( ' his cherished plans was
the lale of Ihe esiiblishinent of the
park and briioriug of it to its present
form, told by Mr. Steel. He related
how, as a hoy, he found printed on u
scrap of paper a description of a
wonderful lake in Oregon, how he
I'liine to Oregon ami imiuircd for the
lake and for years was unable to lo
cate it even approximaiely, how ut
last he beheld it and conceived the
idea that the lake and its surround
ing peaks and forest should be made
into a park, the playground of the
American people, how for years he
used every influence at his command
io have Ihe government set aside the
land, how he had spent months and
mouths at Washington and how in thu
end the government did set aside 240
sipiare miles, to be known us Crater
Lake National park.
M r. Steel explained how the govern
ment lias appropriated $7(10,11(10 as a
continuing appropriation for the con
struction of highways in the park.
This win I,,, expended during a term
of years in the construction of a road
around the rim and in the improve
ment of the existing roads. When
this is done, he concluded, and the
money is all expended, he wiii again
so before congress und ask torn mil
lion dollars money for the paving of
all roails in the park, and for the
(Continued on Page Four.)
EXPECTS VOTE UPON
WASHINGTON, Au 7. A rtui
vjiss of the Nviuitc is being inude by
Srimlnr Thomas, chairmtin of the
siiffniLH' LMimniiltrc, to leiirn whether
it witl hi- possible without extended
debute to Ret a vote ut this essinn
on ii fe!enil suffrage tiiiieiidmeiit.
Senator Nhafroth, a white house call
er today, aid he expected to see the
vote taken. a
NTHUIASTIC
OVER CRATER