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BPfe MEDFORD Forty-Beventh Yrnr. Dally Twelfth Yonr. Offensive Indicated by Artillery Pre parations North of Ypres Sarrail Resumes Drive in Macedonia Ital ians Capture Monte Ortigara l&lians Seize Greek Town. The wiping- out of the Goininn sn lient nt Messincs appears merely to prelude to a projected Imttlc o n fur mightier destruction. The British hnve resumed trench raids over a front reaching from Hie north of Ypres to as far south as Epchy, a distance of about seventy miles us the crow flics hut far more tlum that nlong the tortuous wind ing battle front. The official announcement of raids north of Ypres is of especial interest in view of the recent freiiienlly re ported heavy artillery fire on the llel trinn front. From Ypres the allied front curves sharply to the sea ami nn advance here would threaten the' German hold on their great subma rine bases on the Helgian coast, Os tend and Zocbrugge. j In the meantime there are indiea-' tions that General Sarrail is prepar-j nig to resume the offensive in Miu-e-doniff, the llulgurinu official nn ' nouniuient reporting a great increase in the violence of the allied artillery fire on this front. Ilrltisli Ik-Kin Advance. LONDON', dune 11. The P.iilssh have made an additional advance south of Mossiucs, the war oN'ice an nounced this moraine. The statement adds: "There was considerable artillery nctivity cast of K.pehv and soutli of Ypres. Hodies of hostile troops as sembling in this area were dispersed by oar fire. We made successful raids last night near La 1'assc, east of Yermelles and south of Arnieu tieres." PARIS, dune 11. There was :ic live artillery fighting last niI.t norll of the Semitic, the war.ntfiee an nonuces. A German raid west i Cemy was repulsed. KOMK, June 11.- The Italians have resumed the offensive, capturing Monte Ortignra, east of tlima I'mlice. Ango pass, the war oi i ice announc ed today. Italians Occupy Town. WASHINGTON', dune 11. Occu pation of danina in northwestern Greece, near the Albanian frontier by Italian troops was n ''military ne cessity, according to otlicml dis patches received today from the Ital ian government. The occupation was necessitated, dispatches say, to gunr (inlee stability of conditions in the occupied territory of Albania J1,1d I to establish n shorter and safer route for Italian transports and supply shins across the Adriatic. mCRLIN, June 1 1. There was con siderable increase yesterday in the artillery activity in the sector of the dunes on the Ilclirian front near NicuiMirt and east of Ypres, nnny headquarters nnnoiin lloilay. DUBLIN, June 11. Police Inspec tor .Mills was killed lust night while nroventine the hohlinr of a meeting called to protest against the imprison ment of Irish rebels. Several Sinn Feiners were arrested. Lleutenant-General Mahon, com mander of tho British forces In Iio land, had forbidden tho holding of the meeting, but In spite of his order 2, 000 persons gathered opposite Liber ty hall. Count Plunkett, member of parliament and Sinn Feiners, who was arrested In connection with the revolt of last year and other equally defiant members of tho Sinn Fein attended the meeting with tho Intention of speaklr.g. Count Plunkett, Cathal Brughet, James Kenny, Hod Kelly and Martin Welsh were arrested. While he was taking lhse men to jail Inspector Mills was strurk with a atlck or stone and knocked down. He died Id a hospital early this morning. His assailant baa not been arrested. BRITISH RESUME " ENTOMBED MEN TRENCH RAIDS ! RESCUED FROM 70 MILE FRONT! DEPTHS OF MINE WEATHER Ten Miners Found Alive on 2200 Foot Level, Using Cement Sacks for Bulklnads 25 Found on 2400 Foot Level 63 Bodies Recovered Death List to Read 135. HUTTE, Mont., June 11. Ten miners have ben found altve on ttio 2200 level ot the Speculator mine. Helmet men have been In communi cation with them. These men using cement sacks nnd mine water bulk headed themselves in so thoroty that tools bad to lie brought to break thru their living tomb. The men are re ported to lie in good condition. Hel met men were sent to the surface for food for these men and for helmets for their use so they may be taken to the shnfo In safety. The first man brought out of the ten found alive is Martin Garrity. Ho was in good condition. The sec ond man was unconscious. His name is not known. He was hurried to the hospital (las Lisa and Joe Thomas came next. Hoth were conscious but in bad shape and were taken to the hos pital. Coroner Aenea Lane this morning stated that C3 bodies had been re covered from the Granite mountain shaft of tho North Butte Copper Min ing company as a result of Friday night's disaster. Fifty-three of these are identified. Ten are unidentified. The coroner stated that the death list will probably reach 135 and that it is expected there are still 72 bodies ia tho mine. (roup of 2. Found. After al lhopo that any men would be rescued alive was given up early yesterday, the rescue workers were startled by a signal from the 2400 foot level of the Speculator shaft, ad joining the Granite mountain. Hoi met men quickly descended to the level and found a group of 25 men allvo and In god physical condition. These were quickly hoisted to the surface. Tho men had entrenched themselves against the deadly gas in a small blind tunnel. With their clothes these men, under the instruc : Hon and leaedrship of Manns Duggan, ! a nipper, constructed a gas and smoke I proof curtain which they hung at the entrance of the tunnel. They kept ; the gas out of their retreat for 36 . hours When the pangs of hunger land thirst drove them out of their I safe retreat Duggan essayed to lead jtheni to the shaft. Duggan became i lost or overcome in groping his way ;to the shaft station and while all the i men he saved have ben rescued, the young hero has not been found. Hecovery Slow. Tho work of recovering bodies Is (rnlnn- fnrwnrit slnwlv. The helmet nn vt nnnotrnto.1 Iho Inw. est levels of the mine. Removal of bodies is progressing very slowly. A public morgue has been established nt the mines nnd an order has been issued that no moro bodies may be brought Into, the city because of the state of decomposition of many of thoso being recovered. If Manns Dugnn, hero of the dis aster, returns from the tomb of the dead to the living, ho will find that since the terrlblo disaster, he has lieromo a father. At midnight on I'rlil.iy. a few minutes after the fire broko out In tho Granite mountain shaft, friends telephoned to the time keeper at the mine asking that Dug gan be sent homo. His wife was be ing moved from their little home on Zaielda Ftrcet to the hospital. The timekeeper, still Ignorant of the ex. tent of the disaster repnea mat ne would send the man home. The babe was born Saturday morning as tho father was battling with 2S otherB against death Every one of the men (Continued on Pag Six.) U. S. LEAD TO RUSSIA LONDON". June 11. Great Britain ha- sent Uiis-i.i n note in reply to the letter's reue-t for a statement of Pnti-h var aims. The note, oltho not vet made public, is stated to be in cencral agreement with President Wil-on'.- note to Iiiisfia, Maxiimuu Yesterday Go; Minimum Today -II. FORECAST MEBFORD New Head of British War Mission in America Here to Cordinate Work of Various Organizations Expresses . Appreciation of British People for American Cooperation. P5b AN ATLAIN.TIC POUT, June 11. Lord Northcltffe, on an errand to America to co-ordinate British activ ities hehe as a commercial representa tive of the Ilrltisli government, ar rived in the United States today on an American steamer. As virtual head of the British mis sion in this country, Lord Northcllffo, owner of the London Times and other English newspapers, conies, It is un derstood, to work along industrial and economic lines in the furtherance of his government's Interests in Amer ica. Lord Northcliffe Issued the follow ing statement: "The war cabinet has designated me head of the British war mission to tho United States and I have been In structed to try to co-ordinate the work of tho various admirable Brit ish organizations already established here. "I wish to express my very great personal pleasure at being again in America and to say that the whole British people have a profound sense of grateful appreciation of the mag nificent welcome accorded Mr. Bal four and his assistants an dthe com plete success of his mission." SENATE STANDS PAT FOR NAVAL BASE WASHINGTON, June 11 Demo cratic. Lender Martin declared in the senate today that naval recruits were being sent back lo their homes be cause the government has no mobil ization grounds and that sick men have died because they could not properly be quartered. Senator Martin made his statement in opening the fight for the $:i,O0O,(MIO appropriiition for a naval base at the old Jamestown exposition site, strick en from the war budget by the house. The senate, alter hearing Mr. .Mar tin, voted -IS to --, to insist on the inpropriation. The war budget was then returned to the house for recon idem lion. SUNK By U-BOAT NEW YORK, Juno 11. The Nor wegian steamship Askild, a vessel of 2264 tons gross register, which de parted April o with cargo for England was torpedoed and sunk. by a German submarine May 19 near the French coast, after leaving England for Africa, according to members of the crew who reached here today. "We had time to take to the boats," Otto liornsen, one ot the crew said, "and then we had a narrow escape from death by shell fire. A French destroyer came up and fired on the submarine and the submarine fired back. We were between both craft In small boats and shell fell all around us." ARREST OF SLACKERS WASHINGTON, June 11.- Orders for the arrest of every man between the ages of 'Jl and 'M inclusive who after 1) o'clock tonight cannot show a certificate of registration for war service was issued by the provost marshal general today. LONDON, June II. Two of fivej hostile airplanes thnt were' sighted by I a drifter of the Dover pntrol today, I were destroyed by the British ir-j craft, it was officially announced to- niht. NORTHCLIFFE RUTH LAW'S bombs get libey bonds ACCUSE WOMAN MOB RETURNED COMES TO AID Pl!j 1 OF ORIGINATING MEN SUSPECTED UNITED STATES fef Al BOMBEXPLOSION OF KIDNAPING Mt V -lit. Jlv,.. : ORECiOX, MONDAY, JUNK 4 liolli I.iiw, Anieiicaii champion nvuuiiv, lias i:con uiuukiiik loinis in Iho Mildle West by dropping; "iKimlis," mill gaincil molt- l.ilx'l'Iy Loan iHillds for the government... Miss l aw, who is shown in n'jrilliltiou aiiny aviator's uniform, with her French trench doK, ollll." She wenrs a l'lvnch service cii'iw insignia on the collar. The aeroplane is il i-cgulation CnrtLss nur- plnne. KILTS TO REPLACE (Correspondence of the Assoclatoil Press.) LONDON, May 30. Kilts may re place trousers for Chilian dress. Their adoption is under serious considera tion in many parts of England as a re sult of the government's advice that men should wear material ot ono huo to economize in dyesteuffs. In support of kilts a government fashion expert says they dispense witli the nuisance of pressing, and of their durability there cm be no question. because Scottish families have passed one kilt front generation to genera tion. , Another argument advanced in fa vor of tho kilt Is the advice of physi cians who say it is the ideal dress for boys, because it gives them the great est warmth around tho stomach and greater freedom than trousers. Many important ncwKpaperfl have como oat for tho kilt. One oE these, tho Mvcr - pool Post says: "Certainly something (should ho dono to abolish the hideous cylindri cal bags In which we hide our legs to day Whoever saw a statue that looks dignified In trousers?" The presence of thousands of Scol- LIBERTY LOAN FACTS The Value of the Conversion Privilege The holder of a Lilicrly (loud lias the privilege, without ex pense to him, of exchanging his .'('. percent Imad into any new Tailed States '.'ovcrnincnt bonds which may be issued during the present war, hearing- higher rate of interest. This is a most iinporlaut practical reason for deciding to buy n Liberty llond NOW. If Hie government is obliged to rai-e the interest rate of any new issue to sill bonds at par (lull), the present purchaser enjoys the enviable po-ition of being able to increase his rate of interest by this exchange privilege. Furthermore, power to increase the interest rate should cnnblo the Government to maintain the price of the l.ibeily Loan al or above par (into. It seems c.iially likely that ill the event of such increase of interest rale Incoming necessary, other securities hearing fixed in terest rales, will decline in price. This means that the pics -nt purchaser of a Liberty Iloml can fed certain that he can sell his bond at any lime al piaeti'iilly what he now pays for il, or more. If he holds other sceinilics bear in'j fixed iiitcn-t rates, he may have lo suffer considerable o,s in the event of his selling. If the war is over in a reasonably short time, he can probably sell his 1 1,01111 bond at considerably more than $1,000. P.I Y A LIDF.RTY P.OND TODAV, AT YOlK RANK. Fair Tonight. Tuesday Fair and Warmer, i 11, 1917 W i- Mi's. Chin les Oliver on land, Is hero mciltil on her hitnist and Iho flying iSPY OR TRAITOR ;e WASlIIXGTONVJnm' .1 1. Either spy "i" si traitor lias been divulyiiip: oonridonlinl int'urmation from tho bu reau nt' ordnance, Seerelary Daniels today )ld the senate naval affairs emnniiltee. When the committee todav resumed investi-dion of )K. Mongolia she'l ac cident. Senator Kreylinjilniycn pro duced letters which Secretary Dan iels said contained information which onlv could have been obtained from the confidential files of the ordniincc bureau, lie aked to have thctu tinn ed over to (he secret, service. Senator rrcyliii'-lmcu suid he hud no de sire lo shield anyone, hut he hud at tempted to t in out something about th' ii ill hoi nnd could not. Seerelary Daniels contended that charges of incompetency were made ! in the letters against inspectors and Whnt they contained unive reflections upon the basic defenses of the conn try. One of the letters was post marked Detroit, .Mich. tlsh troops In all parts of the country has madu the kilt popular witli many civilians. 1 T Km 5 tilii Frosecutcr Tells Jury That Mrs. Mooney Purchased Nitre as Base to Produce Explosive Used in Mak ing Bomb Which Killed Ten People in Preparedness Parade at 'Frisco. SAN KHANClSt'O, June 11. l'.lcv en days before a bomb exploded here last July which lulled ten persons, Mrs. Hena Mooney purchased about JO pounds of nitre, declared Assist ant District Attorney Louis Ferrari in his opening statement at the actual heginninc; of the trial of Mrs. Mooney for murder growing out of the ex plosions. "Mrs. M'oonev said she was going to experiment with the nitre, which is one of t lie liases used to produce dynamite, nitro-glycerine or n strong blasting powder,1 said Ferrari. Py combining- the nitre with sulphuric acid nitvic ncid is produced, which, if added to sulphuric acid and glycer ine produces nitro-glyceriue. The process is so simple that n layman with n little study could produce the explosive. Five days after the bomb trairedy the iipnrtnicnt-s were searched. Three books on dynamite were found. These facts the stale expects to prove ns showing Mrs. Mooney's direct connec tion with the murders." Is New Accusation. Mrs. Mooney's alleged purchase of nitre was not brought out in cither the trial of Thomas J. Mooney, her husband, who was sentenced to death, nor of Warren K. Hillings, sentenced to lifu imprisonment, us the resull of the bomb deal lis which occurred during Ihc course of u preparedness day parade. In opening- his address, Ferrari outlined details of t he dciilh of Mrs. Myrtle Irene Van Loo, one of the ten victims for whose death Mrs. Mooney is specifically charged in the indict ment. "Two distinct lines of evidence will be employed to connect the defend ant with the commission of the crime; first, her direct aid, and secondly, that a 'Conspiracy existed between Mrs. Mooney and the others indicted. Sleet Jacketed Itllllots. "Steel .picketed bullets identical in st.e and make with those placed in the bomb were found in Mrs. Moon ey's room. "As Mrs. Mooney looked down on the parade from the roof ot the building where she lived ami saw Ihc marchers who had not bcefi deterred by the explosion, she flew into a rage and declared: 'What n beautiful mess a machine gun would make of the marchers below on the street." Ferrari said the slate would prove that the explosive contained in a suitcase was placed on the sidewalk by the defendants, who went to the scene of the tragedy in a jitney bus, Inter reluming- to their home nearly a mile away to establish an alibi. To IM.scouragc Patriotism. Mrs. Mooney was surrounded by frienils when court convened. The "silent jury" of union labor men filed in and took their places among spec tators without objection from Super ior Judge Kmtuct Seawell, presiding. (Continued on pagoslx.) KEET SUSPECT E HPIIINGFIELI), Mo., Juno 11. A chargo of first degree murder has been preferred ugainst Hick (.'alter, of Kprlugllcld as a result of the Inves tigation of the dfsappcaraaco and eath of Lloyd Keet, according to an announcement by Paul O'Duy, county proHcrutor today. Carter was said to liavo been arrested at Hutchinson, Kansas. HfTCHIiNSON, Kas., Juno 11. Itlchard Carter, who was arrested here yesterday at the request of Sprlngfluld authorities In connection with the Keet kidnaping case, was rc ' b ased today. Carter is said to have i proved ho had not been In Missouri j (or more than twelve mouths and could not have been connected with tho case, NO. G9 When Prisoners Refuse to Confess, They Are Returned to Sheriff Fu neral of Lloyd Keet Held Men Arrested Expcctedto Clear Mystery Surrouiulinn Abduction and Murder. SI'lilNGFlKLl), Mo., June 11. A warrant charging first degree murder hits been issued tiiiiiist a niiin named Dick Carter, County Prosecutor O'Duy announced today. A man of this name who was being held by tho Hutchison, Kansas, authorities, has been released as he was not the one sought. The warrant is the first for mal charge against any one in con nection with. the kidnapping., SPRINGFIELD, Mo., June 11. Whllo thousands followed the llttlo white casket of Lloyd Keet to tho gravo today, more arrests were ex pected to clear the mystery surround ing the kidnaping and murder or the child, whoso body was found In an abandoned well Saturday. Moaiiwhllo Cletus Adams and Claud Piersol, two of the six alleged abduction plotters, are being held In Jail nt Kansas City, where they were rushed for safo keeping after being taken from the sheriff and subjected, to a "third degree" by loaders ot a posso who threatened the prisoners with denth. Having failed to obtain a confession, however, tho two were returned to tho sheriff unharmed. Tho other prlsonors, Taylor Adams, his wlfo and ono son and Sam McOin nls, wero understood still to be held at Stockton, Missouri. The coroner's Implant Into the baby's death will be held Wednesday. Lettci-s liuit Kidnapers. Tho letters sent to Mr. Keet aftor tho baby's kidnaping the night ot May 30 wore made available today. The first letter, received the day after Lloyd was stolen and which sent the father over almost impassable Ozark hill roads, instructed him nilnuately as to the composition of the $C000 he was to pay over for the return of the infant and added: "We suro got your kid. Don't say nnythlng to the police or put It In the papers. There are three of us and wo want $2000 apiece, so It will cost you $11000 (six thousand) to get him. We got another ono picked out, so If wo don't get this from you we can tell tlieni to see what we did to yours." Then followed Instructions as to tho placing of a light In a building that would notify tho kidnapers their instructions wero being compllod with and a description of tho route to bo followed. The letter concluded: "Wo uro going to feed him and be good to him until then, but If we don't get tills, you will have a tough look ing kid. x x x x Wo got lots ot milk. Kill is all right." Second lctler TliiiMitcnlng. The second letter arrived at the Keel homo the next morning. It de lated: "When wo seen what was up on Hie road we como In," adding that It was known tho Instructions of the first letter bad been revealed to out- Iders." The third letter was received on tho night set for tho second Tldo. It merely had to do with the route to ba taken, (loth drives laid out carried past tho old Crenshaw home, where the baby's body was found floating In a well. Officers hellcvo that possibly tho baby was kept in the house until its abductors becamo frightened. All the letters were written, It was declared, in a good hand, apparently feminine, with attempts to disguise by misspelling and lack ot punctua tion. PlersolS Iron Xervo, Adams and Piersol owe their lives to tho Iron nervo of the latter. The (Continued on Page Two,) START UPON TRIP WASHINGTON. June 11. Tho Italian envoys today began packing up in anticipation of beginning their postponed farewell tour of the coun try toinoi row. The Princo of Vdine, whose illness Inst week delayed tho trip, will remain here until able to rejoin Hie mission probably in an other week.