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i Medford Mail Tribun
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Full- uiul Warmer Toulit
DUll TUCMlllJr.
WEATHER
Maximum Yesterday 4ii;
Minimum Today 21,
Forty-sixth Tear.
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MEDFORD. OniXiOX, 3HOXDAY. NOYKMMKIJ. 'JO, WW
NO. 207
H UNDER GENERAL SARRA
MONASTIR CAPTURED BY SERBIANS AND FRENG
mPTfiFQQ IQ iWILSQN HAS 27B ICH1EFS UF FOUR
FUirillTFn AND HUGHES 255. BROTHERHOODS ISg'igiff
ELECTORAL VOTES SEEMDEr pM;
U I I LU I UllU Completion of California Official to- Head of Trainmen's Organizations iJ"TSW -W 'l' f1 jJ$s !
Victory of General Sarrail's Armies
4
on Macedonian Front Being Vig
orously Followed Up Several
Towns North Also Taken Monas
tir Virtually Destroyed by Fire
and Explosions and Deserted by
Population.
PARIS, Nov. 20. Allied troops
havo boon completely victorious on
iiic Macedonian front from the River
Ccrna to Lake Prcsba, according to
announcement made by the French
war office this afternoon.
This success had Its culmination
yesterday with the entrance of
French cavalry Into Monastir at half
past eight in the morning. During
the same day French troops moved
out to the north of Monastir and cap
f lured Hill No. S21 and other villages
in tho vicinity. They also took 62 0
prisoners and a considerable quantity
of war material."
Occupied by Serbs.
The communication rollows:'
"Teh fighting which lias been
going on since November 10 along
tho front of tho army in tho Orient
from the River Cerna to Lake Presba
l as come to an end with a complete
victory for Jho allied troops.. The
-iiy of November 19 saw tho final re
sult of the vast enveloping mnneuver
ol tho German and Bulgarian forces
which were defending the region of
Monastlr.
"On the evening of November IS,
Serbian forces, continuing their vic
torious offensive, occupied the village
cf Grunishte, cast of the Cerna. The
same night Yarashok In the bend of
the river, fell into the hands' of the
Franco-Serbian troops. Following up
their success with energy during the
if night of the ISth-lOth, our allies,
after a brilliant engagement took pos
session of Hill No. 1,378 and at day
break on November 19 thoy drove
the enemy out of Makovo.
Orcnfiy Trenches.
"During tho day of the 19th sev
eral lines of Bulgarian trenches lo
cated in the vicinity of Dobromlr
were occupied by Serbian forces. This
determined advance movement com
pelled tho Gcrman-ntilgarians to
evacuate the last of their positions
protecting Monastir.
"French cavalry pursuing closely
the rear guard of the enemy entered
Monastor Xovember 19 at half past
eight o'clock In the morning. They
were followed by a column of Franco
Russian infantry.
"During the day our troops, work
ing out directly north of Monastir,
took posession successively of Hill
No. 821 and the village of Kirkllua
lY'o miles north of Monastir) and
i they reached the outskirts of Kara
continued on Page Six.)
FOR $115,000 LIBEL
NEW LONDON, Conn., Nov. 20.
While officlnls of the Eastern For
warding complny today declined to
make any statement regarding the
Deutschland, It was understood that
the damage caused by the collision
with the tug, T. A. Seott, Jr., prac
tically has been repaired.
Deputy Sheriff .1. II. Tubhs was
waiting, it was said, for the tiling of
a bond that would release the subma
rine from the ? 12,000 libel, brought
by the T. A. Scott company, owners of
the tug T. A. Seott, Jr., in order that
he might serve attachments on the
Deutschland in four damage suits ag
gregating $175,000, brought in the
interests of the families of the crew
who lost their lives when the tu? h
unk by the submarine.
Completion of California Official To
tals Shows President Re-elected
With Margin to Spare Official
Count Completed, Though Not Re
ceived by Secretary of State.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20. The lat
est official figures show the Electoral
voto to be Wilson, 270 and Hughes
255. Wilson carried 30 states and
Hughes 18. The last states to report
are California, Minnesota and New
Mexico. Of these Wilson carried Cal
ifornia with 13 votes and New Mexico
with 3 votesi while Hughes carried
Minnesota with 12 electoral votes.
Ohio was tho only great eastern stato
carried by Wilson. Wilson carried
every slate west of the Missouri river
except Oregon.
Sun Feniieiseo Finished.
SANFRANC1SCO, Nov. 20. The
official canvass of the olcctlon re
turns In this city was completed yes
terday by the election commission
with tho result that the Hughes elec
tors made a net gain of 69 votes. The
official tabulation of the votes will
not tie completed until next Friday
v.-hui It was said the official result
will he announced. 1
The commission finally disposed
yesterday morning of all contested
1-reelncts. The members ordered tho
votes to be counted as the face of the
returns indicated they should be HTter
hearing explanations of discrepancies
by the election officers.
The action of the commission
therefore settles all disputed points
and there is nothing now left to be
done but to prepare the sheets show
int the result of each precinct, which
have to be sent to the Secretary of
State at Sacramento.
i KtTors in California.
SAt'KAMKNTO, Oil., Nov. 20.
Klection returns from fifteen conn-
(Continued on Page Two.)
LONDON, Nov. 20. The position
of Rumania appears Increasingly pre
carious. General Von FalkeubayirB
armies are continuing to force their
way southward from the Transylvan
iap border and Petrograd admits a
lurtlier retirement of the Rumanians
in the Jiul valley region.
The greatest peril to the Ruman
ians, according to the view of entente
military critics, lies In tho reported
cutting of the railway from the Dan
ube to Craiova threatening the flank
of the Rumanian army south of Vul
can pass and making the position of
the Russian army at Orsova hazard
ous. The had weather along the front
In France apparently has brought
operations to a virtual standstill.
HKHI.IX, Nov.' 20. Operations
along the eastern front have been
only of a minor character, the war
office announced today in the fol
lowing statement:
"Severe cold prevailed and fighting
actively has been limited."
USItLI.V, Nov. 20. The Austro
Cerman campaign against the Ku
manians and their Russian allies lias
gained further successes the war of
fice announces. Near Campulung the
Rumanians, whose forces are de
moralized, made attacks yesterday,
but were repubed.
PKTHOflRAl). Nov. 20 The Itu
maniam are still retiring south be
fore the Invnding Auslro-tJerinan
troops in the .Ilul valiey reslon, the
war office announced today.
GERMAN DRIVE
INTO RUMANIA
MAKES PROGRESS
Head of Trainmen's Organizations
Confer With Wilson Tonight Se
crecy Surrounds Agreement of the
American Federation and Brother
hoodsPresident to Confer.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20. While
it was insisted they caniu only to pay
their respects, the heads of the four
great railway brotherhoods made an
engagement at the white house today
to confer with President Wilson late
in the afternoon. It was expected
that the eight-hour day fight nnd
probably the plans for co-operution
of the brotherhoods with the Ameri
can Federation of Labor would be
discussed, if only briefly.
Plans for a eo-ordinution of ef
forts between the American Federa
tion of Labor and lour great railway
brotherhoods for an eight-hour day
fight, said to have been formulated at
a conference here yesterday, arc stir
rounded witli considerable secrecy.
Confer With Goinpers.
The brotherhood leaders conferred
with President Gompers, and it was
said ihey would address the Aiueri
can Federation of Labor convention
in Baltimore on the subject tonior
row. -
President Gompers was quoted as
refusing to discuss the subject on the
ground that it was to ciiine before
the convention.
The reported plan of the labor
leaders is surrounded with many cir
cumstances which leads government
officials interested in the congres
sionul investigation of the eight-hour
railway law to believe it lias been
fonnulated to meet a reported move
ment on the part of employers to
band together to fight the eight-hour
day.
Until the plans are fully disclosed,
tile legislative program of the admin
istration will not bu fully shaped, but
it is admitted that the action of t lie
labor lenders will have uh important
bearing upon it.
See I'msiclcnt Tonight.
The leaders will see the president
at ":1." and at fi o'clock the president
will confer with Keprescntative Ad
nmson, auflior of the present eight
hour law, and vice-chairman of the
joint congressional committee which
began an investigation of the rail
road situation today.
Jn the president's address to con
gress next .Monday he will make rec
ommendations for the remainder of
the legislative program which was
unfinished when congress adjourned.
The brotherhood leaders oppose
that part of the president's recom
mendation which propose investiga
tion of railroad controversies before
a strike or lockout is permitted. The
American Federation of Labor has
also gone on record against the rec
ommendation. F
L
KL PASO, Nov. 'JO. American
mining men here continued today to
make every possible effort to obtain
definite information regarding the
fate of the remaining Americans in
Pnrral. In addition to the live or six
Americans known to have reached
I'liliaean, Sinalon, where are believed
to be at least six other Americans
still in the Parral district.
With the exception of the report
brought to the border by Chinese ref
ugees, stating tiiat "all foreigner
had been ordered killed by Villa,"
and the report brought to Juarez by
a .Mexican who claimed to have seen
four Americans being taken to Villa
'icndfpiiirters in Parral after the oc
cupation of tin- town, nothing is
known of the lute of the Americans
anil other foreigners in the Parral
district prior (o Villu s "iitnin'e.
t JUST CANT DO WITHOUT OLD ARMY MULE
The newest tracton may cltmli hills, ford streams ami perform other
marvelous feats but the tractor that
of Europe is none other than the old
shows a mule hi a Herman trench w
him.
(Copvriglil, l!Mfi, bv the Associated
Pros.)
SIMLA, India, Oct, Hi. Lord
Chelmsford, India's new viceroy, in
nn interview witli 11 (oiTe.-.pondent of
the Asf-UK'iuti'd Press today, dis
claimed reports of any new problems
in India arising out of the Kuropeau
war. He said:
"No doubt at the present moment
political problems are ultractinx the
greatest attention both in and out of
India, bill none the less it is ii mis
take to suppose llint Ihc-e are new
problems which have recently conic
U), or even different problems from
tli one on which we have worked in
the pnt.
"(in wherever you please through
out the Jeiith ami breadth of India,"
said Lord Chelmsford. -'Study our
work and our iit ! i'-iillics. No wen
try, will bar the way and no secret
acnls will shudmv you. Talk to
whom you p.lcu-c ce what you
please; do what you please, and then
write what yon plca-o. In India we
have nothing to eruieeal. Will you
tell your countrymen that?
"The war, affording India an op
portunity nf ili-plii in iH practical
inipoilance (o the empire, has stirred
Indian aspiration, and the new part
nership on the battle field has rpiick
ened the sympathy "I the whole em
pire wilh those a-piiationw,
' 'lint i-h statesmen have always
conceived in a ('n,'nH's: spirit their
responsibilities to India and the In
dians. Perhaps the rati of definite
political po;:rc-s ha-, been slow, but
constitutional development can hard
ly be other than slow. The political
development of India has always
commanded our anxious a Men I ion
and has always been progressive. ,f
French Order Out Envoys
LONDON, - Xv. -UiMi Allien,
dispatch to (he Kx halite Tele-jraph
company -ay- the (b rman, Au-tru-lfuiyMii,tn.
KtilL'nrian ami Turk i-h
;ninis!er- to Orcet c have 1 n in
formed by Vice-Admii al I hi Koiirnct.
commander of the allied fleet, dint
thev in ii deport from (J recce bv
W'e.lm-duv.
j
proves indiHpensnblo in tho trenches
fashioned army mule. The picture
here -there are many more just like
-" '
10 NEW YORK CITY
NKW YORK, Nov. 20- The record
breaking air plane flight of Until Law
begun yesterday In Chicago, term!
natcd at l!ovcrnor'n Island hero at
9:10 a. m. today, aflcr stops at Hor
nell and IthiLihamptoii, N. Y. The
final ir2 miles from llfuKltaniplon to
this city was covered this morning In
two hours and twenty minutes and
tho entire journey, s:i tulles in an
air line, In the actual flying time of
nine hours and one minute.
.Miss Law was greeted on her ar
rival at (lovernor's Island hy Major
(ieneral uw .Mrs. Leonard Wood, who
congratulated her on her achieve
inent. She was considerably chilled
and was taken (o the house of one of
the officers at the poM to recuperate
She had little tu say about her
flight, except thai she had to fly
much lower (ban she wanted to, on
account of the haze. It was the cause
of remark among those who examined
her machine here that its structure
was such as to expose her to the air
more than in the case u most modern
air planes. The pilot's seat is placed
on a projection In front of the ma
chine so tiiat I lie avlatrix got the full
force of the wind.
Miss Law bettered Victor Carl
fitrom's record by about 100 miles,
making the .'iHO miles In an ah' line
from Chicago to Cornel N v., where
she arrived yesterday, without stop
ping. Carlst rum's ma' hlne protected
him from the Icy winds.
10 CANADA TO ID
CIIK AIK), X..-. L'H. TIiciii-.iimK
of J!rili--i win- umIi juitl tht-ir cliil-
lltl'll lire cr In' t J .ill -Jx.I t i til Cillt
nilil with tile v m'-I : t i nil tluil In it tl y
l"t' till' WIHIII'll will III' ln;in-ii'il to (-iin-
iiiliini limiiiT-. in iilini: In t''"'
itlltlillf'il lll'l'i' IimIjiv Iiv l;ii,l l.nnili
nf l.nniliin, .'..tiitii i i..fi.-j- it 1 1 1 iiii.
nii-riili.m sipiiity nf llii' Siilviitnui
Army.
Hi' niil In1 1 . i 1 i ivcil ii-siinini'i'
ol' Mi,ii.rt of tin- phin linin linth tin
I'liiniilmn iiin.l iiriii-li '."ii'i Nun-lit.-.
ALL PHASES OF
Tl
10 BE PROBED
Congressional Investigation of Rail
road Problems Begun in Washing
tonSubject of Government Own
ership and Regulation to Be Con
sideredAid of All Factions Asked
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20. In open-
ing tho first session of the Joint con
gressional committee to Investigate
railroad problems today, Senator
Kranels (i. Xewlands of Nevada, the
chairman, explained that the inquiry
would cover a wide field. He said:
'It will relate to every phase of
the transportation question, the mall
carriers, river carriers, ocean carriers
and the perfection of a harmonious
system of transportation embracing
rail, river nnd ocean carriers that
will meet tho demands of iuter-state
as well as foreign commerce and it
will also he applied to the telegraph
and telephone lines, express com
panies and other public utilities:
"It will embrace not only the sub
joct ot government control and ref
lation of these utilities, but also the
wisdom and feasibility of government
ownership and the comparative worth
efficiency of government regula
tion and control as compared with
government ownership and opera
tion."
Ask Ahl of All Factions.
Senator Newhmds said that a fc-on-
elusion will he' more quickly arrived
at "If '"We have tho sympathetic aid
of practical men, of economists, of
railway executives, of workers, of
commercial bodies, farmers, mauufae
turers, and shippers."
Iteferriug to government owner
ship he said:
"It is a question that must he
faced. Other nations far advanced in
civilization have adopted the system
Recently, under the stress of war, al
most all Kuropean governments have
taken over tho railways. It demon
Ht rates that la conditions of grent
crisis when an autocratic power must
he given the government, all intellec
tual governments drift toward nbso
lute and complete regulation of the
roads as the only solution of the
question.
"If we pursue the exercise and the
study of government regulation wise
ly, persistently and energetically, we
may create such a sytsem of regula
tion a ft will meet every requirement,
both in time of peace and of war, hi
exigency or crisis, it seems to he
wise for the government to ascertain
the history of governments that h;vv
adopted government ownership and
operation of railroads and to watt h
the experiences of the Kurupcan gov
ernmeuts in the gerat war in this re
gard. ;
IHscic-h Public Costrol.
"In this connection will come the
question of the method of taking over
the railroads. Shall it he accomplish
ed hy actual valuation of the railways
and a condemnation of them, or shall
they he taken over by the easier
method of taking over the storks and
bonds at their market value, thus at
(Continued on fiigo Two.)
STRANDED AT DOVER
;i;m,!N. Nov. O. -The American
Menm-hi Siberia, nccnrdini: tit wire-lc--
reorU received here, is stranded
on (he Kn-t (iooduin .-aitds near Do
ver, and i a-kin-4 for help. The of-tieer-
of the Siberia av it i- hnioi--ible
to launch boat-, ouiiii; to the
hem v m-us.
The hlcanirhi Siberia, ot' I l.'Jhl
Ions uro-.-, which h.ul nirn.U-d m-v
(irteeh year-' under the American
flair, wim .-old bv the I'aeific Mail
Nctitii-hit eoniuinv of New York
early ibi- year t" a .laanc-e -leam-
-hip coin i :t n v lor -erviee bet ween
Sun Kijineir-eu and the far eaM. Thi
c--cl i ih'W on a oyas:e to ,laan
and t hinc-e Mnt-.
1AFHC CONTROL ONTHESOAIE
GREAT THRUS
T
AT STANDSTILL
Berlin Report Declares That General
Battle Has Degenerated Into Lo
cal Actions British and French
Attempts Futile Germans Retake
Positions as Fast as Lost. '
- ' s , " ir,
UKUMX, Xov. 20. The military
rilic of the Ovvrni'iis News uyeney
writes :
Tlii! jjii'iit thrust on the Soinmo
bun i'oiiiu to u MiimUtill. Last week
tbt' fji'iii'ial batllo was split into iso
lali'il attacks. The small local sno
ceses ot the enemy eoulil not be de
veloped u lid i'ur the most part were
nnllil'ieil by counter attacks. Tho
tact that lor several weeks the samu
villages have been mentioned again
and iiffiiin in the ol'ficiiil Clennan re
ports and those of the entente is the
best proo!' that the :enerul battle on
the Sonnne lias come to n standstill
and that the British as veil us the
French are limited to improving their
positions.
Successes Small.
"Allliouuh the llritisli won small
local successes near Clrundconi't and
the (iernians were if;iiiti driven from
Serre, the coveted heights of Serro
.remained in (Icniian hands after a
desperate battle.
"Three fresh army corps- were
hroiiv.ht up by llir llnMsli Joe the.
ffi-ent attack of November i;i-14, tile
objective which was not merely
Itcaimiont-llaiucl and I'l'iiucoiirt, but
liapiiume, as it proved bv orders that
were found. Alter the failure of the
mass thrusts, isolated attacks were
continued by the Kritish all throuRh
I he week. These, were without suc
cess and on Saturday the British
araiii made a general attack on both
sides of the Ancre.
Xeiv Attempt Knits.
This new allempl to break Ihrouirh
our line was a failure. On the Vi
kiloiueter front the enemy was re-'
pulsed almost everywhere, and his
insignificant successes nt some
places required the heaviest sacri
fices. Local success at the bend of
the Ancre was paid lor by the Ilrit
jsh with losses elsewhere on the
fi t. The llulle de Win lemoiirt, n-
Inll which bars the mini to lliipauinc,
which was captured by the ISrilish on
November I I at the expense of enor-.
nious sacrifices, was recaptured by
the (ii'i'inans on the .Kith. A surprise
.illiii'k was liiailc by the Germans
without artillery preparation and the.
opposing troops lied. Only two non
ciiiiiMiissioncil olficei's and seventeen
men could be captured. The prison--
crs bore no arms. They were Aus
Iraliniis who were must weary of war,,
and Ihcv declared tiiat all the Aus
tralian troops on the Sonnne front
were kept up only by the hope of
speedy relief.
"l-ciliited attacks by the French
were ciiinlly unsuccessful. Ncur St.
Pierre Yiuist w 1 a l'Ycuch altack
broke down with heuvv losses ami
near l'rc-suire little was quilled.
LITHUANIA TO BE
NGE
PA It l, Nov. 2(t. -Geriuuny In
nhout to Tnllow up her declaration of
Polish independence, with a aimllar
an:iounceni(!nt regarding Lithuania,
tfccnrdiut? tn dinjiatchen from Swltzur.
lainl. Tho dispatches said that tho
new Mate will probaldy receive Princo
tfithtl Frelderk'h, second son of tho
Mimei or, an ltn Hovendyn and will
form a ntate of the German empire
wlt'i a HluiUar tatun to that of Huvhv
I. or Saxony. Ah In the cafe of Po
Ian. I, the dl.tpatchcH add, a Lithuan
ian army will he formed to fight
uudt r l-'lebl Marshal Von I linden
bur K.
It Is estimated that IdthiiHiiia
could raise I50,uoi men,