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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (June 7, 1917)
Itolversily t Oregon Lllsrcry , . "WEATHER Maximum Tcstcrdav, 80; Minimum Today, 47. . FORECAST Tonight and Tomorrow, Tartly Clo udy. ebford Mail Trtoun Forty-seventh Tenp. Dally Twelfth Year. MEDFORD OREOOX, THURSDAY. JUNE 7. 1917 NO. fifi f vs. LA i U.S. WARSHIPS ANCHORED OFF I 1 American Naval Transport Docks at French Port With Supplies for Am f erican Troops for Whom Prepara- tions Being Made Bases Being Or- ganized and Provisioning Arranged. PARIS, Juno C Tho ministry of marine announced tonight that Amer ican warships have anchored off the French coast. Tho announcement adds: "The French navy greets with joy on their arrival these new brothers in arms now under the flag of the great American republic havo come to par ticipate until final victory in the struggle against the common enemy." Transport Arrives. PARIS, June 7.. A large American transport containing wheat for Amer ican troops, which are to cotno later, has crossed the Atlantic under the protection of an American warship, the Matin announces. Tho transport is now being unloaded at a French port, the newspaper says. Preparations aro being made for thflreccptlon of American troops, the newspaper says further. A number of bases similar to those of tho British army have been organized. Camps have been laid out for in fantry and artillery and aviation parks have been established for Amer ican aviators. None of tho American officers is bringing his family. The Matin says tho arrival ot the transport means that tho provisioning of the army is well under way before the arrival of the troops and that ac cordingly tho American forces will make no call on tho French stock of food. Is Collier Jupiter. WASHINGTON. June 7. The nav al collier' Jupiter has arrived Franco, Secretary Daniels announced today, laden with 10. mil) tons of wheat and other supplies. Tho shir sailed from an American port without any intimation of her voyage having been given out in advance and is now at anchor In a French port. i ffiie Jupiter Is one of the navy's largest colliers. Sho was the first electrically propelled steamer ever built and her performance was so good that it led to the adoption of electric drive fur nil new battleships and hattlo cruisers, tho American navy being tho only one in tho world to adont this type of propulsion. The Jupiter was built at Marc Island Navy yard, San Francisco, and she has high snecd of an auxiliary naval vessel which would enable her to escape sub marlno attacks under any but unusu al circumstances. Secretary Daniels did not specify what supplies besides wheal the big ship carried. I I DLTIIOIT, .lime 7. Ikiiiiii-je will amount 1 nlmnl .7-"i,iilin Ilia wrought mnl four lives wi re chimici by the (crrifio vim! slorin win tiwent. across central .Mailman yes terilny afternoon. The district whi includes Kiillle Creek, Ann Arbor am Jackson, sti.-liiincil ino-l of the .lam use. A score of persons were injur ed. Untile Creek reports about iT.nn.nnn damage and seventeen pci"iis hurt At Spriiiirport, Jack-nn cunlv, tc houses were dcstmvc.l ami or Woman died of heart failure. Three persons were killed in Va-li teniiw count v near Ann Arbor AMSTKRDAM. Juno 7.-Tt" city of Mons hss hrr n fined ( ' n.ririo be. raute a Belsmn r-P"r- r'ibll:-h"d ir Holand, announced that Crown Prince Rupprecht of Havarla was In Mos vhsr. .hn' r!t- n tnm'h.rH"1 - V FRENCH GOAS AMERICAN SHIP "on irn ouri i " iSS SMASHING G uuiiii u uuni i mimiAMiA uitu innnr nnnumrn aiiotdiamo pi mm William J. Clark of New York, War rant Officer From Battleship Ar kansas Commanded Gunners on Shell Tanker Which Gave Battle to Submarine in Mediterranean. WASHINGTON". June 7.-Villinin I. Clark of New York, a warrant of ficer from the battleship Arkansas, ommauded the tinned guard aboard the American sleamer Silver Shell which sank a German submarine ill the Mediterranean. "It was a splendid piece of work," Secretary Daniels said today, "and now wo are considering promotion for Clark, who well deserves it." Why Xante Suppressed. The Silver Shell is the steamer re ferred to in yesterday's state depart ment announcement as having sunk German submarine after an o.- hunge of sixty shots in a running fifrlit for an hour and a half. The state department did not an nounce the name ot the steamer be cause it has been this government's policy not to disclose the names of ships having; engagements with sub-' mersibles, because officials feel it marks the ship for further attack, as they believe was the ease with the Mongolia. That vessel after having once been identified with a submarine encounter, lias repeatedly been at tacked as though the submarine flo tilla had set about especially to de stroy the vessel which had the temer- ly to engage it with such persistnnee. It has been the policy also not to identify the gun crews on merchant hips so as not to add to their hard hips in case of capture. Fl-encll Made It Public. 1'AKIS, June 7. The American tcamer Silver Shell has had a battle with a submarine in t lie Mediterran- au. After an exchango of sixty hols the submarine disappeared. Details of the fight were made pub ic loilay by the minister of marine. The Silver Shell, commanded by Cap tain Tom Charlton sighted tho sub marine on May HO. In the running fight which followed the American boat proved speedier than its enemy, nil seemed also lo be the master in unfire. The disappearance of the submarine was sudden. The Silver Shell is a steamship of "ti().") Ions owned bv the Shell Oil company of California. She sailed from America curly m May with a rew of 4:1 men of whom Jo are Am erican citizens. Ilcr commander noes from New York. PARIS, Juno 7. Roar Admiral La caze, minister of marine, said It was unknown whether the submarine was sunk by a shot from the Silver Shell or submerged voluntarily to avoid further punishment. News of this occurrence was received with lin- He coming after the anounccinent that an American squadron had ar rived at a French port. Admiral Lacnzo referred to the valuo of this cooperation and laid emphasis on the multiplication of patrols with tho as sistance of hydro-ncroplanes as the quickest way of disposing of subma rines. HIGH LIVING COST CIIItlSTIANlA, June 7.. The dent onstratlon thruout Norway yesterday against the high cost of living passed quietly. In Chrlstlanla 40,000 per sons Joined In a street parade. A deputation of tho demonstrators was received by the president of the Storthing. I'KHSIDIO, Tex. June 7 Kian . i .n Villa va: '.' idenLillv inpirrd hcn hi. bore throe him and f'l on his chert in the brittle near O.tinasns rccenllv, it was tfportcd here todav BRITISH START GREAT OFFENSIVE nuiviHMH nun uniVLUKUmiLU huoiiwto ulhiiii READY TO FIGHT PARIS, June 1j Rumania has re organized her army and is ready to resumo tho fighting, according to a statement made by Premier Bratiano In' an interview with -the Petrograd correspondent ofHhe Parlsien. "The Russian democracy," snid the Rumanian premier, "has launched a new peace formula, 'neither annexa tions nor Indemnities,' and she wishes to impose that formula on her allies. Rumania finds the formula acceptable as far as sho is concerned. She did not enter the war to make conquests. Her single object was and is tho liber ation of Rumanian territories .en slaved by Hungary, which never had the right to dispose of themselves. "My country Is keeping Its prom ises under the most difficult circum stances. It has been invaded by an enemy superior in numbers; it has lost its capital and more than halt of its territory; it has suffered famine and disease, but 1t has made a great and manly effort to re-organize its army and it has never given up the struggle. Today Rumania is ready to resume the fight, its army is perfect ly trained and it has material such as It never had before. 'In the crisis we aro passing thru. at a moment when the war seems to be approaching its final phase, Ru mania, who kept her engagements to ward the allies, has the right to ex pect that the allies will remain faith ful to the terms of the troaty binding them to her." SECOND STEP IN DRAFT IS "WASHINGTON, Juno 7. The war department was at work today on regulations for the second step in the army draft, selection by lot ot a pro- r.ortton of young men registered, whilo the provost marshal general's office was compiling data on the reg Istration Tuesday. It may take a week or ten days to eompleto tho nation-wide tabulations. Then tho war department will pre- scribe rules for drawing names of men who aro to bo examined before local or precinct exemptions boards and for tho composition of these boards and of boards ot review to which those drafted may appeal. A call for a dofl nlto number of troops will be Issued, each state will be notified to contrib ute a certain proportion and stato au thorities In turn will determine al lotments for subdivisions. Officials noted today that tho re turns received so far lndlcato that more than half or the men registered either claimed exemption or gavo facts which might exempt them. The war department may Issue a guiding statement for hoards of exemptions, but actual decision on each caso win bo left to the local authorities. Km phasls Is laid on the determination lo prescrlbo no class exemptions, but to pass on cases Individually. CUBA TO ADOPT SELECTIVE DRAFT HAVANA, June 7. President Mo nocal today sent n message to con gress recommending Hie passage of a law making military service ob ligatory on all male citizens on the basis of the selective system, as in stituted in the l.'nited Slates. A a preliminary the president a-Ls authority to call for a rriu-tra-tion ot all cituenr, between the aqc of Jl and 30 and to put under arms immediately the necessary numb'r ot '- ' El WITH success Haig Launches Expected Blow on Nine Mile Front South of Yores, Taking All First Objectives and Many Prisoners Serious Menace to German Hold on Lille. LONDON, June 7. The British have opened an allack on a nine mile front between llessiues and Wyt schactc, south- of Ypres, mid have taken all their first objectives. The official statement says that the British progress is being contin ued and that a number of prisoners have been taken. The official statement follows: "We attacked at 3:10 n. in. this morning German positions on the Messines-Yytschaete ridge, on a front of over nine miles. We have everywhere captured our first ob jectives, and further progress is re ported to bo satisfactory along the whole front of attack. Numbers of prisoners are reported already lo be reaching the collection stations." Against Sluirp Salient. The new British offensive is against a sharp Gcminn salient three miles south of Ypres. l''or several days tho Hritish have maintained a tre mendous bombardment for almost 30 miles on this portion of their front. The salient itself is about three miles in width and the same distance in depth. An effective advance in this sector would seriously menace the German hold on Lille, which is nbout five miles from the . nearest Hritish i position. Success marks the opening of t lie offensive, the Hritish winning all (heir initial objectives and pushing, on. Their further progress is reported to be satisfactory along the whole front. Iteply to German I tons t. While a considernble stretch scp nrulcs the field of this new offensive from that of "Arras, the operation may be considered as in conjunction with Hie continuing battle on the Arras front. A sweeping salient in front of the city of Lille has been crenleil by (he Arras attack and in n broad sense this salient is now under threat from both the north and the south. Helving the recent German l.oast that the Hritish offensive from Arras had come to a hall, General tluig earlier Ibis week proved that he had not lost his initialive thereby making a successful drive lo the south of I.ons, carrying a mile of the German front north of Ihe Scarpe. 'file reverberations from Ibis blow had hardly died away before In. lav's attack was launched on Hie other side of the Lille salient. A sharp, well defined curve ill Ihe German line, about three miles deep and the same distance across, is the immediate object of this new attack. In common with oilier sections of Ihe line in Belgium along a front of some thirty miles its uetensos had l:ceii subjected lo a tremendous poiindiii; by the British artillery for days. OF FRENCH BATTLE I'AltlS, June 7. A strong force of Germans marie an attack northwest of St. (jiiontln at midnight: Today's of ficial announcement says tho attack ers worn caught under a violent French flro and retired after sustain ing heavy losses. IlKfiLIX, June 7. German troops yesterday captured French positions for an extent of nearly one and ono quarter miles along the Cheniln-Dcs-Dnmes front south of I'argny-Filaln, In Ihe Alsnn region, says the official statement Issued today by tho Ger man rmy h'adouartors staff. Early today, tho German statement says, the battle In Flanders fully flared up after the most exten-vo ex- ?. .n LONDON, Juno 7. Tho rapture of more than 10000 Italians in Hire, days is claimed in tho Austrian offi cial statement issued on Wednesday, Tho statement says: Italian theatre: Tho enemy yes terday exhausted himself In fruitless attacks between tho Vlpacco valley and the sea Intended to wipo out tho dofeat ho suffered in the last few days on the Carso plateau. Ills assaults were shattered. Our troops, by storm- lug a height near Jamlano, enlarged their success and in fierco battles maintained all ground won. "According to preliminary reports the prisoners in the last three days have been increased to 2"i(l ofiecrs. Including four staff officers and 10,- 000 men. Some Italian regiments fell into our hands unwouiided, with nearly the whole of tholr effectives. For Instance the Eighty-sixth regi ment with 2G8fi men; the Sixty-ninth regiment with 1932 men and the Sev enty-first regiment with IS 13 men. The brigades of Verons, Syracuse, Ptiglia and Ancona, in whoso ranks these units fought, wore annihilated In a tunnel near San Giovanni a largo field hospital was captured. The bat tlefield is covered with Italian corpses. - ' "On the moonlit night of tho fifth Italian airmen visited towns and places far behind our front. In the Austrian interior they came as far as Laibach, in the Tyrol as far as Bo- zen, In addition to raiding tho coastal district and In Corlnthln, Some inhab itants were killed but there was no material damage done. IKH.VDON, June 7. It. now would seem that only eight of tho clglitcc German aeroplanes which look liar In Tuesday's ruld regained their base Official reports leavo it still not cor tain whether eight or ten German machines wero actually lost. There Is no reason to doubt, howover, that the loss will reach eight and this proof of alertness and efficiency of tho British airmen and n n I i-af reran devices has brought satisfaction to tho British public almost equalling tho satisfaction felt whou thu first Zeppelin was destroyed. LONDON', June 7. The morning papers today display with gratlMr lion the news of the toll exacted or tho German air raiders, which they remark Is a terrible price lo pay for raid which gained no military advan tage. It. Is assumed that ten German aeroplanes wero lost, which causes some of the commentators to express tho belief Is almost enough to cause tho Germans to ceaso repetitions of their air raids. L (El GIONKVA, June 7. The (lii.cllo do Lausanno says (but It learns a gen eral strike had begun In tho Grand Duchy of Luxemburg, owing to the high cost of living and the refusal of proprietors of factories, mostly Ger mans, to Increase wages as a remit of tho Insecurity of their factories from attacks by allied aircraft. Five thousand workmen, savs the ne tpupT. besan a strike at ttch. regardless of severe warninij by the German commander. Tho ttrlkt ..prtad to other townsi ar.d German H' SECESSIONISTS OF I So-called Kronstadt Republic Surren ders Unconditionally to Provision al Government and Issues State ment Recognizing Authority of Min istryRevolt Now Closed Incident. VKTKOGKAD, .June 7 Tho Kron tadt incident is closed. 'rho local oniniittee of soldiers and workmen's delegates has recognized the author it v of the provisional government. The local committee of the ork- mens and holuiers delegates al Kronstadt decided on Juno I to as sume control of the. great fortress and to refuse recognition of the provis ional government. The government officials were removed. The secess ionists nut forward a program of plitting Kussia up into a great iniin bin of self-governing communities and ent missionaries out to try to per suade neighboring towns lo join them, The socialist ministers in the provis ional cabinet, M. Tseretelli and M Skobeleff, went to Kronstadt from 'etrogrnd and endeavored to per suade the seceders to abandon their dan. The present surrender is np parently a result of their arguments The so-called Kronstadt republic surrendered unconditionally to the provisional government. Ihe peace agreement says: "In accord with tho decision of a majority of tho l'etrogrnd council of deputies, which acknowledges thai tho present provisional government is invested Willi coinplefo nnllinrriy the state, we on our side also rocog uize that aulhonly. BRAZIL CALLS OUT T lltIO JANEIRO, Juno 7. Tho gov ernment has Issued a decree for the forinution of a first section ot coast artillery. Tho decree also culls for tho opening of a credit of 870,000.0 rcls to be expended on armament and war ntntcrlals. Under normal conditions 870,000 000 rcls would bo tho equivalent of $2 0,100,000. SHELL OIL GUARD MAUTIXKZ, fill., June 7. W. 1 Ilisner, scarchli'rhl oicr;ilnr at plant of the Shell Oil cuitipuu.v ( 'alU'iiriiia here, was shut ami huilf.' wounded early loiluy by one ol' group ol' men whom the aullinritii believe soiieht In blow up Ilic worli Willi a bnnib. IliMier was struck the arm by a bullet I mm a lu;Ji pow ered ril'le cipiippcd with a silence lie raised an alarm, bul hcl'iirc II arrival of the imlice bis assailant ccaM'd in Ihe da rkne-s. Two c. trie, batteries and an ahirin cli were found, lncthcr uilh a lial bear ing the inline of a l.cwistiui, Malr firm. The imiriniilers secured cntr.-inci Ihe ui'oiinds by cutting a portion the biirbeil wire fence eiico-iu property. AMKTKKDAM, via London, Juni 7. Thn Hamburger l-'remdenbliidt a copy of which lias ben received here publishes a Stockholm report whi Is aleged to havo emanated from Itus. slan sources that tho original trcatle between ItUHsIa and western powers which were concluded since lul.l hav dlsapeared from the ivtrorad lor elfn oflM-e. Tho rumor connuU tho dl.appi.-ir ance with 'recent niy.-tirlour, bure larlcj. at tU;- Icrjl-r. .o."(e it1 KRONSTAD END MUTINY POMPOM BRITISH EXPLODE IE0FMI Panic Spreatl by High Explosives- British Drive on Greatest Scale Yet Attempted, Sweeps All Before It Fifth More Guns Employed Than in Arras Smash. liHITISlI IIKADQITAKTERS IK FHA.XCK, June 7. The British ttisli this morning on the jressines-Wyt-schaete ridgo of tho Belgian front look them well over the ridge, where they are now entrenching'. Tho village of Mcssines was report to have been taken early in the glitiiitf. It was also reported that tiler and Znreeba hud fallen and that Wvtschaete had been surround- by Ihe Hritish storming troops. The' British also captured impor iit trench positions nil the way irom Observation riiliie, southeast of Ypres lo 1'loegsleert wood, north of Anncn- lieres. Million Pounds Kxplosivcs. , 11 (i re than onu million pounds of nil explosives was blown up undor the Clerinan forward positions. This, tho most gignnlic mining operation in the history of war, spread panio among the (icminns. The British in their allack todny used probably twenty percent more guns, especially tioso of heavy cttl ibres, than they employed ill the bat tle of Arras. Tanks wero in Ihe thick of the figliting. '..More than .1000 Qei-anns wero taken prisoner curly in thu en gagement. The fighling eoiilinues under a mul uinuicr sun. The (icrmuiiH huve not vet rallied for the expected counter attack. On Mcssines ltidgo. The British atlae'r. began today, two months afler Ihe oflensive cam paign burst in I o flume at Arras, was arricil out in that slender strip of Belgium, saved nearly three years igo from the German invasion. Ihe blow was struck on a front of ap- roximalely ten miles against tho high ground known as (he Mos-intes ridge, from which Ihe Germans havo overlooked Ihe British lines ever sinco October, 1(11 I. II was not lone after the battle began that word enme from all sectors of the fighliug front that Ihe various objectives hud been taken on scheduled time. All Ihe prisoners say Iho flormuns had been expecting Hie attack, but were taken completely bv surprise by Ihe hour al. which it was launched and Ihe fury wilh which it was cur- (1 forward. CHOSE JAIL TO DRAFT liOCKKOKI), IN., June 7. March ing two abreast thru the business ectioii at ! o'clock, IMti Industrial Workers of Hie World and socialists who defied the army registration Tuesday, gave Ihcnieslves up to Guy (winders, sheriff of Winnebago coun ty, 'fhe par;nler-( bore a banner in seribcr) with the words "One for all, all fur (Pin-, peace tint war.'' Three of the members of the I. V. W, known In be of draft age, who hoii-lrd they Iiid not submitted to i ii rat ion, were a r re-ted during tho lay and lodged in jail, pending ad vices I i'omi federal officials. SHELLING LIFE-BOATS AN ATLANTIC I'OIIT, June 7. -An American destroyer on patrol oft tho roast of Ireland recently came upon a German Kiihmarltio Bhelltng the lifeboats or a ship It had sunk, killing two persona, according to sur vivors of submarined vessels who ar rived today aboard an American lin er. Tim sulinmrino dlr-.ippeared be fore the destroyer could get a ehot at her and the American war vessel then rescued twenty survivors of two ehlpa tKit fcifl Viftft,, , ...ill. MINE MILLION
