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.PAOE TTTRETI GERMANY IS LIKE A FEUDAL CASTLE; ITS WALLS NOT MADE OF STONES. BUT MEN; : - ! GENERAL PERSHING'S TACTICS MUST BE SAME AS THOSE OF ANCIENT DAYS IN RUSSIA TODAY HEDFORD MAIL TTtTBtTNE, MEDFORD, OT?Ef)ONT, FRIDAY. ATOUST H, '1017 BLAME SOCIALISTS FOR CHAOS RULING BurleyisA PETROORAD, Aug. 3. The polit ical crisis, which is still unsolved, is taking a Dew form, owing to the growing tendency of .the country to divide into two sharply -defined op posing cmnps. In the first camp arc the educated, especially the lunded and industrial classes, led by mem bers of the duma, and Moscow man ufacturers, while the second is cora- . posed of socialists of all shades of opinion. Tho- chief evidence of this divis ion is an unofficial session of the duma, at which the moderate pro gressive party joined the old reac tionaries in attacks otiMhe socialistic policy of the cabinet, as influenced by the councils of workmen's and soldiers' nd peasants' delegates. , Paul Milukoff sharply assuiled the 1 councils for trying to dictate to the ,. non-socialist members of the cab inet in the manner in which they nl ' ready dictate to the socialist minis ters. A sensational speech was made by a member of the progres sive party, M. Muslennikoff, who ascribed the military disasters and internal anarchy ns due wholly to the socialists. He referred to the so cialists as "a crowd of mad funat ios; adventurers and traitors, who call themselves the executive council of the workmen's and soldiers' deputies."- :": " '-. M. Maslonnikoff declared tliot the duma alone could have Russia, but to do so it must cease sitting in a corner, afraid pf itown shadow, and meet in regular Bess-ion and de mand that the ministers appear be fore it and render an account of their stewardship.' - V,:' Nicholas Lvoff, constitutionalist democrat, also declured thu .the. Against this idea the officiul orX grin of the workmen nhd soldier and peasants deputies raised the cry that the duma aims at a counter-rcvolu tion. In this other organs of the party of the left agreed. At yesterday's session of the duma nil the speakers repudiated the ac cusation that their dim is a counter revolution. -' They asserted that the . councils nnd the government under the influence of the councils would ruin Russia irretrievably and that the damn's only aim was to prevent such ruin. F AT PETROORAD, Aug. 3 General Radko Dimitrieff, commander of the Russian troons on the Riira front. has resigned his command of the twellth army. tlenerul Parsky will succeed him. General Dimitrieff, who is Bul garian, tit the beginning of the war represented his country as minister to Russia. Immediately on the out break of hostilities he telegraphed liis resignation to Sofia and tendered his services to the Russian war of fice. 1 lis- tender was gladly accept ed, for Dimitrieff had been com munder-in-chief of the Bulgarian army in the latter part of the first Balkan war, but resigned his com mission, -when Bulgariu, at the in stigation of Austria, attacked her former allies, Serbia nnd Greece. In Bulgaria, Dimitrieff, who is as much a politician. as a soldier, was known as the "Little Napoleon." He has . had many important commands in the Russian army since the outbreak of the world war. . PLAN 10 SAFEGUARD NEW YORK, . Aug. 3. Plans t.. safeguard American shipping from attack have been worked out by the naval construction board, nnd special committee appointed by Ma jor Generul Goethnls, it beenrae known here when W. L. Saunders, chairman of the board, advised war relief societies to adopt the system as a safeguard for their shipments. Details of the plans were not made public. Mr. Saunders, in n letter to John Moffatt, secretary of the Fed era! Council of Allied War Relief so cieties, suid the plans had bt-en ap proved by the federal authorities, who now ore putting into effect through the war risk insurance bit Teau a premium on ships equipped according to its provisions. 1 "SHiNDr WL h"ksFRM( Asiatic A rJt C0arett M W. hJ - -TURKEY , pSr V'O411 L 1 J S S.. . Read Just How the Allies, Reducing an Outwork Here and a Wall There, Must Vanquish the Kaiser's Fortress.' (Copyright, 1917,' by the Newspaper ' Enterprise Association.) V, nhnt faces the American annv to day, ds the great war swings into the beginning oits fourth year? 'What is the strnteiric nml ruclicnl situation. Ibcforc -the allies, and what can PWtdiipg's force play in the storming of the Gennnu citadel that has been breached at some points, nut stilt remains. .untakenT It is possible t'oput into simple words the military situation at this moment. . . ' ',.. Let us imagine the central nower group Germany, Austriu'-llungnry, Bulgaria nnd Turkey us ji'.; great fortress, which is besieged sn, all sides. " Tim l-nium- in llm "(mafia hiu,n"SCt. Btfrlin like a (feudal lord) f ihtA middle ages decided to grub his neighbors' hind, and extend the walls of his fortress to dominate them. E ' SHOWN IN RUSSIA AMSTERDAM, Aug. 3. Count von Reventlow In an article In the Tages Zeltung, referring to Arthur J. Bal four's speech In the house ot commons In which-he spoke ot the nationalities of AuBtrla-Hungary determining their own course ot future development, tells his readers of widespread ma chinations of American agents In Austria-Hungary, started by former Am bassador Penfield long' prior to the Austro-American breach. The article says that Americans who left Austria soon after the breach talked confidently to neutrals of "Im pending complete political Isolation of Germans In Austria, while In Hungary also secret organization of entente nations and America soon would bear fruit." Both predictions have been fulfilled, says Count von Reventlow, who darkly adds: "How long the former ambassador to Constantinople, Elkus, remained In Vienna or whether he Ib still there, we do not know." . Balfour's Idea, says Count Revont low, Is the dissolution of the Auslro- Hungarlan monarchy, which squares exactly with the alms of the Ccech poles. AVIATOR FLEISCHMANN KILLED BY FALL IN AIR CIKCIXXATI, Aug. 3. Charles Fleischmunn, who fell lo his dentil from nn aeroplane in Great South Bay last night, was the only son of Julius L. Kleisclunnnn, former mayor of Cincinnati, nnd president of the Hoiwhmann Yeast coniwiny. He was 22 years old nnd enlisted in the aviation section of the. signal corrm a few weeks ago. An uncle, Cnptnin Max Fleischniiinn, is stationed nl the Fort Omaha, Neb., I'nited States aviation camp. , Instead of- walls of """stone, this modern Teutonic, "fortress" has walls of men. There are two main "keeps" er eustles-at the ends of the fort ress.. 'At one end arc Germany ami Austria-Hungary ; ut tho other Is Asiatic Turkey. . . , , Between these two great keeps is a connecting link of fortifications, tak ing in Bulgariu and Serbia, southern Rumania and European Turkey, j Just Like Feudal Gastlo. , , Projecting from this great fort ress, and protecting its main walls, are "outworks,", whicl) serve. to. hold off the ullied armies. ' ' These "outworks" were '. built in the first year' .of the war. It wus the '(German year.'. For tlio lust, two years nllit-d "storming parties have been at work, reducing an outwork here, breaching a "btistin" or front there, and pushing evor closer to the main keeps. The problem was to breach those walls. Tactics change; strategy re mains immutable. The ancient Egyp tians ntude their attack upon n wailed Icily for exuetly the same strategic Qbjeel as lluig'or Petam make their attacks. Hannibal, when he staiiod his wur against Rome by. rupturing MWISIELLS Ji E COPKNHAGEN, Aug. 3.i-Accord-ing to a published account of con versations in Dresden, flmncellor Michnelis suid tiiat while lie was ready to accept nny opportunity given him to secure an honorable peace, the requirement of the hour for Germnns wns to ovoid any mani festations of nervousness nnd prove to their opponents that Germany's might was unweukened. Gcrmuny's opponents, Dr. ' Mi chnelis said, hud been greatly en couraged by the exhibition of nerves in the latest inner crisis and by the Gcrmun longing for peace, which was interpreted ubroad as a sign of weakening of the Gcrmun people. Peace w;ould be brought no nearer, he said, by such things, adding that the government would continue its efforts for pence, hut would avoid .curlier mistakes. Chnnccllor Jlichnclis intimated that the prospects for a speedy peace were not bright, but that un expected developments liiight at any moment bring the iioestion to a head and produce tangible results. He appealed for unity nnd declared that the entire (leiiniin press must back the government in ull vital cincstions. STATE OF SIEGE DECLARED IN GREECE IX)NDON, Aug. J. A state of fdege has been declared In the whole Greek department of Attica, Including Ath ens and Piraeus, according to a dis patch from Athens to the Exchange Telegraph company. Snguntum,' proceeded as Perilling will have to proceed in France. The difference is one of tactics not strategy.' In the days of Egypt nnd Romo and Curtilage the problem was to attack a walled city; now an "umy must attack a'wulled nation; walled in with human beings. The problem before tho ancient general was to make a breach in the walls and pour his archers and spearmen into the flunks of the de fenders, sweep them along, and at tack them in tho rear. If a wull, wus breached, tho defenders built a now wull behind tho breach, and made sullies out to strike the attackers on tho flank. The allies' human battering rams havo attacked the kaiser's fortress at seven points, as shown on the. ac companying skctull, with these re sults; . ' ;, . ' Seven Attack Points. 1. Russia has -captured the Gnl ieiun fronts of Bukowina and Lutsk, but the remainder of the large Pol-and-Volhyniun outwork remains in tact. . . ' . , ; Russia has reduced tlio Caucasus front and joined hands with the British-Indian army. RUSSIA REFUSES DF PETROORAD, Aug. 3. The pro visional government has refused lo acknowledge Finland's independence law and has instead issued a mani festo dissolving the landtag and ap pointing a general elector of October 1 declaring that the government, when the luniltiig meets,' will submit its own law. regulating Russo-Finn-isb relations. The fate of Finland can be decided only in ngreeinent with the Hussion people, the manifesto declares. ' The niinister for Finland took the manifesto to llelsingfors and deliv ered it to Governor-General Stako vich, who rcud it to the scnute, utter which he made a friendly speech, in which he said: "This manifesto is the most dem ocratic action yet performed by the revolutionary government, for it makes Finland's people musters of their own destiny." The landtag is expected to decide its course of action tonight. The so cialist majority threatens lo defy the manifesto and continue in session, while the non-sociulists expect to obey it. II is slated that the mem bers of the hie.li court have tele graphed to llelsingfors declaring Hint Ihcy would refuse to administer any future landtag enaelmcalH pass ed under an unconstitutional inde pendence law. NO INCREASED EXEMPTIONS FROM PHYSICAL DISABILITY WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.-First and scattered reports from local boards do not indicate nny increase in physical exemption from the nrniy draft over the nverage of 2H.77, established in 1803, it was unnouueed toil")'.' , 3. The British-Indian army has captured tho Mosopotnminn front by reducing Bagdad. 4. Tho British-Egyptian army has reached the Syrian front. . 5. The defenders of tho Qallipoli front have driven nway tho storming party at this point. . 0. Snrruil's army has breached the Salonika front, but the, defend ers cling to their second lino. ' 7. The Italian army has breached tho Carso front, but the temporary second lino of walls holds. 8. The British-Frcneh-Belginn ar mies havo driven the defenders com pletely out of the Vimy, Peronne, Uion and Maronvillers fronts, and broken down a long . pioen of the walls of the French-Belgian "out work" nnd the' second lino of tempo rary walls (tho llindcnhiil'g line) is endangered. ' What llomaLs 1H1. The Romans brought up battering ranis nnd catapults, nml by pushing them close to the walls of the be sieged city they buttered uway'at one or two. spots in the wall, until the stones wore jarred loose and fell, thus making n "breach" in the wull, through which the foot troops could SILVER COINS MINTED WASHINGTON, Aug. 3. Minting silver coins is proceeding at every mint in the country at from five to eight limes the volume of past years, according to announcement today by Director Baker of the mint, who has just returned to Washington from an inspection tour of tho mints in the west. The chief demand is for quarters and dimes. Forces at sev-' eral of the mints probably will be uiiguieiiled soon and may go on longer hours to meet the demand. Coinage of gold has been discon tinued temporarily in order to per mit the mints to devote all their cn ergies to coining silver. Dont ask for Crackers sag . Hi:i,r. John Itrownlee i. K. Olmrtniul ". I". Krllis Murah & Ucnnctt Warner, Wortiuun Gore VK rush. In tlio meantime, the defenders of the walls did everything possible to injure tho "battering rntti" and to hinder tho besiegers, but if the bat tering of the wall went Oil, 'they built a second wall inside, in the shape of a half moon. ,. This is exactly what tho Teutons hnvo done. When the, -outwork in Frilnco-nnd Belgium was threatened they built the "Ilindcnbursf line, ".be hind which they rctirect'when Vthe outer wull was breached,'.. JV- . The problem before thtfalilcs Is to smash through a wall somewhere bo fore the Germans havo time to build an insido wall; or else to. destroy the inside' wall after tho firjsj.hns been breached , and thus pour into ' the fortress and take the defenders in rear nnd flank; " '';, But when tho ancient soldiers hud built their half moon temporary wall it was possible for the soldiers on the old walls on either sidu to take in flunk the besiegers when they rushed in to assault the second wall. The task of the allied and Ameri can troops is to push home the de struction of the "bastions," or fronts, so thnt tho main walls of the fortress can he attacked;--. OF MONTREAL, Aug. 3. Sir I.omer Gotiiu, premier of Quebec, made the following dei'luriilion today ' regard ing the political situation: "The attitude of the province of Quebec is sincere. To us it nppeiirs that a government elected six years ugo upon u program containing not one word relating to military mut ters is not a government which should impose' conscription ill Ciin ailu today. I.ct us have elections, unci if the ma jority of the Canadian people declare in favor of it, I am convinced that, our province, like the others, will submit to the peo ple's will." "All right, Mother!., Snow Flakoa for nitric, ov ery time!" Growing children love, tho crisp saltiness of Snow Flakes. They. uro good for . thnm, and you, too. Sold In 3 sizes of packages, and In bulk. I'ACIFIO (X).tST H1S TIT CO.. l'oi-tland' Oregon. KM Fouls Grocery Company Chna Ij. Hdilrffolln - ; J. 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