Forty-seventh Tear.
Dally Twelfth Year.
OF ..WAR WIRE
Official Berlin Paper Denies Exist
ence of Telegram Sent by Emperor
Asserting That Belgium's Neutral
ity Had to Be Violated on Strat
egical Grounds.
BERLIN, Aus. 11, via Amsterdam.
The semi-official Nord Deutsche
Allegenicine eZitung denies the exist
ence of the telegram alleged by James
W. Gerard, the former American
nmbassadiir to Berlin, to have been
Rent by Emperor William to President
Wilson in August, 1914, when the
German emperor is quoted as having
asserted that Belgium's neutrality
"had to lie violated liy Germany on
strategical grounds." The alleged
telegram, which has reaehed Berlin
by way of Switzerland, has the em
peror Raying that King George sent
him word thru the emperor's brother,
Prince Henry, that Great Britain
would remain neutral if war broke
out on the continent involving Ger
mnny and France and Austria ami
Hussia. The Nord Deutsche Allge
meine Zeitung says:
(iives Gerard tlio Lie.
"Wo are in a position to declare
thnt no such telegram from the em
pcVor exists. It is true that Mr.
Gerard was given an audience on Au
gust 10, 1914, in order to give him
an opportunity of placing President
Wilson's offer of mediation be'fore
the emperor.
"This proposal was made at the
time when the armies of both sides
had already crossed the frontier and
when it seemed out of the question
to call it halt of events. The em
peror 'could, therefore, only have his
thanks conveyed to President Wilson
for bis offer, lend remark that while
the present moment was too early for
mediation by the neulral powers, the
president's friendly proposal might
later be returned.
"The einjH'ror then conversed for
some, time further with Mr. Gerard
and explained to him the events that
led up to the outbreak of the war.
The emneror particularly pointed out
the ambiguous and disloyal altitude
of Great Britain, which had destroy
ed all hope of a peaceful agreement.
.Merely a Memorandum.
. "Mr. Gerard's statements in his
itffmioirs appear to he a. reproduction
of this conversation. If the press in
enemy countries sees revelations in
tliem that only shows tlicv arc ig
norant of the German while hook,
which in essence set forth the same
events.
"Possibly during the conversation
the emperor wrote a memorandum
for the ambassador, so that he might
not announce anything to Washing
ton that would he incorrect. In that
case it would be a matter of record
designed to assist Mr. Gerard's mem
ory, but it would not be a communi
cation from the emperor to President
Wilson."
Mr. Gerard published a facsimile
ot the telegram in the emperors own
baud writing.
10 PAY WAR TAX
WASHINGTON-. Aiir. 13. Speak
ing In ttie senate today on the war tax
bill, Senator McCumlier declared that
ttie whole tux scheme contemplated a
period that will cover four years and
that unless the war should end sud
denly the United States would have to
expend llO.OOO.OOO.nnO In that time
He raid that America mlKht have to
put five million men ill tho field and
he believed their support and sacrl
flee should be enough for this Renera
lion, adding that "tho ar should be
borne by our emancipated children."
Asserting that $ l.nuo.noo.nno would
have been enough to raise by taxation
at this time, the Renator said the bal
ance should be paid out of the sale of
bonds.
Senator M Cumber declared that
business must not be unduly bum
pered or crippled, pointing out that
business prfim must not only furnish
all taxes, but the men to absorb the
bonds.
KAISER DENIES
GERARD S STORY
Medford
ALLIES REFUSE
Great Britain, France and Italy
Withhold Permission From Social
ists to Attend Stockholm Gathering
Henderson to Reply to Premier
Crisis Confronts French Cabinet.
LONDON, Aug. llWAmrrew Do-nur-Law,
government spokesman in
(lie bouse of commons, said this af
ternoon that the government had de
cided that permission to attend the
international socialist conference at
Stockholm would not. bo granted to
British delegates, Mr. Honar-Law
said:
"The law officers of the crown
have advised the government that it
is not legal for any persons resident
in bis majesty's dominions to engage
in a conference with enemy subjects.
Therefore, permission to attend the
Stockholm conference will not be
graiited. The same decision has been
made by the governments of France
and Italy, with which his majesty's
government lias been in conference."
Henderson to ltcply.
LONDON, Aug. 111. A statement
by Arthur Henderson, the labor
leader and minister without portfolio
in the British war council, who re
signed Saturday, was expected to be
made this afternoon in parliament,
and it was assumed that Premier
Lloyd-George would reply immedi
ately. It was reported that Mr. Hen
derson would demnnd the production
of all communications between the
British and Knssinn governments
with reference to the Stockholm con
ference, with a view to showing that
the premier put a wrong interpreta
tion upon the linssiau telegram he
quoted in a letter to Mr. Henderson.
The possible dissohUion of parlia
ment to .ascertain the country's
needs by a general election is sug
gested by Ihc Daily News, which sup
ports Mr. Henderson, and which says
the government is upproaching' a
serious crisis.
French Face Crisis.
PAUIS, Aug. 13. The decision of
the administrative committee of the
French socialist party that French
socialist delegates will go to the so
cialist conference at Stockholm, as
announced yesterday, places Albert
Thomas, minister of munitions and
socialist leader, in a delicate position
siinilaf'tn that of Arthur Henderson,
British labor leader, who resigiu'd as
minister without portfolio on Satur
day, there being a conflict between
the decision of M. Thomas' party and
the expressed intentions of the gov
ernment, of which he is a member,
M. Thomas said it could not be as
serted Hie socialists would go to
Stockholm to promote a peace based
upon compromise, but that they
would endeavor to fix before the
world responsibility for the war and
to affirm what the allies consider to
be just and right.
(Jciiiiaiiy May tjuit.
AMSTERDAM, Aug. 1.1 The
Itcrlin Liknl Anzciger says the decis
ion of the British labor party will not
alter anything regarding the hopes
attached to the Stockholm confer
ence, in view of the changes which
have taken place in Russia. The pa
per does not believe much good will
come from the action of the labor
party, and considers the action of the
American government logical in re
fusing passports to the American
delegates.
It is stated semi-of ficially in the
Frank furl er Zedong that the Ger
man socialists may decline to par
ticipate in the Stockholm conference,
if the entente socialists insist on
placing upon the program discussion
of the question of responsibility for
Iho war.
LOST IN BUSH RAID
LONDON, Aug. II. Two of the
German machines which yesterday
evening raided ttie English sonlhcast
coat ttutelillg places were destroyed
by British naval airplanes. The of
ficial statement isued by the govern
ment today says that one of the ma
chines was a Gotlm airplane and the
other a n-anlnuv.
PASSPORTS TO
PEACE MEETING
TTEATIIEIl IMasImimi yesterday, 94;
MEDFORD.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.1. Crea
tion of a grain control board within
tho food administration to supervise
distribution of wheat nnd manufac
ture and sale of flour, willbo an
nounced within a few days. To the
board will be delegated authority to
carry out regulations governing
wheat and flour announced last night
by the food administration.
President Wilson will issue n ser
ies of executive orders giving the
food administration powers conferr
ed upon the executive under the food
control bill.
The first will deal with wheat nnd
Hour nnd will direct the food admin
istration to proceed September 1
with the enforcement of the regula
tions anuouliced last night.
Wheat and flour lire taken up
first, it was said today at the food
administration, because the wheat
crop is beginning to move, making
that the most difficult problem to
handle .now. The movement of most
of the other foodstuffs is about the
same month by month.
Preparation of a form of license
under which grain elevators and flour
mills will operate after September 1
was begun today.
$200,000 Forest Fire
DALLAS, Or., Aug. 11. Damage
estimated by officials at $-JO(l,000
has been wrought by a forest fire
burning in the Silclz basin near Black
Uock, Polk county. Or., according to
messages received here today. Over
1011 men, including a number of sol
diers, are fighting the flames, but
have not yet succeeded in getting
them under control.
GERARD'S STORY OF KAISER'S TELEGRAM BRINGS OFFICIAL DENIAL JAPANESE
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WHEAT AND GRAIN FIVE AMERICANS
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Left to Bight "Muck Jack" Per tilling, Aiocrliaa coniniHijder, (Jencrnl I'rln'.i, roinniandcr-lii-i blcf, ami (ie
monder of the allied forces in France,
mniinuun today, 5(3. FORECAST Tonlglit and tomorrow, fair.
Mail Tribune
ORISON, MONDAY. AUGUST V 1917
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 13. Five
American passengers wero lost when
tho British steamer City of Alliens
struck a mine and went down near
Cape Town, South Africa, on August
10, according to today's stato depart
ment dispatches. Ten other passen
gers and four of the crew also were
lost, the dispatch said.
The dispatches say four of the
Americans were- missionaries and
namo Mr. and Mrs. Maygard, Miss
Robinson and Caroline Thompson.
The latter is of the Methodist mission
board. A Mr. Pointed ot that mis
sion was saved. Nineteen other mis
sionaries of an organization with
headquarters at :I5 Bridge at reef,
Brooklyn, N. Y., wero saved.
Tho fifth American who was lost
was a Mr. Summers, address not giv
en. Ill addition to thoso five, an Eng
lishman named Duckworth, with his
American wife and six children, also
lost their lives. '
Artillery Duel Raging
AMSTERDAM, Aug. 11. A fron
tier correspondent of the Telcgraaf
reports t Flit L terrific artillery fighting
began yesterday evening between
Ypres and Hie sea and that it showed
no signs of diminishing today.
PARIS, Aug. 11 The Germans
attacked last night on the Aisne
front in nu effort to recapture I In
trenches taken by Ihc French on Sat
urday. Today's official statement
I says they were repulsed with losses.
TMF THRFF GREAT RIGHT ARMS NOW SMITING GERMANY ON THF. WESTERN FRONT
JOSE SALAZAR,
VILLA S CHIEF OF
STAFF IS KILLED
JUAREZ, Me.x., Aug. . 11. Jose
Yncz'Siilnziir, u revolutionary .leader
and fonuer chief of staff lii Fran
ciseo Villa, was, shot aufl killed at
the Nogalcs ranch, a short distance
from Ascencion, Thursday. Ameri
cans arriving here today from
Casus Grandcs brought the details
of the death at the hands of a small
hand of home guards, who were or
ganized to protect tho Casus
Grandcs-Ascencion district.
Salazar has. been one of the strik
ing figures ofthe Mexican revolu
tionary activities since the beginning
of the Modern revolution in Dill.
Ho was credited with . starling Ihc
revolution against Madero, together
with Emitio Campn, a physician from
SI. Louis, Mo., who also had strong
socialist ideas he wanted to apply to
the Mexican situation. In February,
1 1)12. Salazar and Campn occupied
Juarez under the red flag of the sec
ond revolution. This banner gave the
new movement ils name of "Red
Fla ego rs."
Pascmil Orozco, Madcro's former
coaimander-in-chief, joined Salazar
and Cnnipa and the campaign ngainst
the Madero Iroops followed. Salazar
led bis troops In the battle of Itollann
when (he federals were defeated,
captured I 'a mil and later made his
campaign thru the Mormon seltlo
inculs of western Chihuahua during
which many of the colonics were
burned and the Mormon settlers
driven to the border.
The story told by the Americans
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TO CO-OPERATE
Mission of Distinguished Men Headed
by Viscount Ishii Arrives and Is
Welcomed Cordially at a Pacific
Port Personnel Indicates High
Nature of Errand.
PACIFIC PORT, Aug. 11. A
Japanese mission to the United
Stales arrived here today.
It was headed by Viscount K.
Ishii, umliassador extraordinary and
plenipotentiary, nnd was received by
a state department staff, headed by
Breckinridge Long, thint assistant
secretary of state, and other offi
cials. Cavalry Welcomes Japs.
A troop of cavalry, from a point
GOO miles distant was brought here
to participate in Ihc ceremonies.
When Ihc boat bearing the mission
arrived, quarantine regulations were
waived so far as Hie members of the
mission were concerned. Its mom
hers were allowed immediate entry.
The party was met aboard ship by
welcoming delegations nnd brought
ashore in a government launch as
signed lo the use of the state depart
ment. Thousands of troops lined the
streets leading to the city hall,
where a brief welcoming ceremony
bad been arranged.
Great significance was nltaclied by
representatives of Iho state depart
ment lo the visit of the mission, nnd
much enthusiasm was manifested at
this port because of tlio distinction
of being selected us the landing place
uT Iho visitors.
' 1 Headed liy Tslill.
The personnel ot Hie mission was
said lo indicate Ihc exlremely high
nature of ils errand, as seen bv 'be
Japanese government. Besides Vis
count Ishii, it comprised Yiec-Ad-miral
T. Takcshita. Maior General I.
Sugnnn, Masano Hanihnra, consul
general nt a Pacific port; Mntsun
Naga, secretary In the foreign of
ficer; Comiuander Mumlo, Major K.
Tanikawa and Tadcnao Iinui, vice
consul at Honolulu.
Assisting Mr. Long in welcoming
the visitors were Hansford S. Miller,
consul general al Seoul. Korea; Col
onel James A. Irons, Captain C O.
Arch, U. S. N., and secretaries and
aides.
Plans for r ption ami entertain
ment were given extreme care at
Washington and were placed in
charge oT Gavin McNnbb, an nl'.or
ncy sent from Washington.
A four-day program confronted
Iho visitors, but most of today wrs
set nparl for rest after the long voy
age. The first large formal event
was to be a baniiiet tendered by
Japanese citizens tonight.
was that three of Salazar's men
were mistaken for guards at the No
galcs ranch and killed, ami that when
Iho leader went lo see why bis men
were detained, a like fate befell him.
His body was recovered and will be
brought here for burial. Salazar's
family is living here.
neini Kir DougliiH llalg, llritisli com.
N WAR PLANS
NO. 122
Wholesale Massacre and Pillage Pol
Icy Adopted Abandoning Hope of
Success, Young Turks Resort to
Savage Brutality, Repeated Scenes
' Enacted in Armenia.
CAIRO, Egypt, Friday, July 20
(correspondence of the Associated
Press.) The situation in Palestine
this summer is the most serious since
the war began. A scheme for tho
looting of Jerusalem already is be
ing executed, and thriiout the coun
tryside the Turk has embarked on a
calculated policy of plundering and
killing the native inhabitants, so
that if they are forced lo vacate the
country they will leave behind them
a desert. The only thing that can
save them, tho only hope that buoys
them up, is that tho British armies
now hammering nt tho gates of the
Holy Land may soon drive out tho
Turks. The following statement of
the present situation. is given to tho
Associated Press by an official in
touch with conditions:
Oppitwslvo Policy. '. f
"The attitude of tho Young Turks
loward the nnfortunato non-Turkish
races within their empire nlways has
been harsh nnd oppressive. During
tho war it has been an open cam
paign of robbery, exploitation and
massacre, for tho Young Turks,
realizing that the partition ot the
lands under their rulo is ttnavoid
able, have dotermined to get as much
as they can out of tho inhabitants,
while they are in possession.
"Tho stupendous wickedness o f
the extermination of tho Armenian
nation cannot he dismissed its' a Trtere
device, of oriental statecraft or as a
particular measure aimed at one
particular lwc, for it is the Turkish
policy toward not only Armenians,
but Arabs, Greeks and Jews, in fact,
all peoples who arc subjects of the
Turk, hut are not themselves of
Turkish blood.
Policy of Massacre.
As long as there was somo pros
pect of being able lo retain, or oven
enlarge, their empire, tho Turks did
not actually seek to destroy their
subject races, Today, knowing
themselves doomed, it is their calcu
lated policy to kill off tho hulk of tho
inhabitants of Palestine and extort
the last ounce of money and goods
from 1 1 1 i'i ii. so that if they are forced
to vacate the country they will leave
behind them a desert, a poverty
stricken and depopulated land.
"Their policy is not consistent with
military or economic needs, nnd is
not supported by even the slenderest
pretext for its necessity. It is dic
tated solely by a savago brutality.
Tho modern Young Turk of the Com
mittee of Union uud Progress is an
infinitely worse tyrant than his
predecessors and all his native sav
agery and blood lust now find vent
in deliberate and organized crimes,
lioriiinny has exercised no restrain
ing influence uud, indeed, shares
largely in the Ottoman guilt.
Cut orf From World.
"Palestine is today somewhat out
off from the world and news of tho
cl i-cii I I'i 1 1 happenings within its bor
ders reaches civilization slowly. Tho
disaster that befell tho Armenian na
tion is now being meted out to tho
mixed non-Turkish population of
Syria and Palestine. Fnrimies aro
being massacred, towns and territor
ies evacuated, communities plunder
ed and given over to pillage.
"'flic town of Gaza, was recently
orderi-il evacuated. Ill pursuance of
(Continued on pav'C four.)
TOTALS $115,000,000
SKATTI.i:, Aug. lo. The corn
inert f Alaska for the fiscal year
ending June 111 set n new record with
a total of tl 1."),0II0.III)0, according to
official figures just compiled, ,
This is an increase of .1Hn,O0tV,On0
oer the previous year, which was
also a record, Vastly increased ship
ments of copper, as a result of tho
war, ami Iho exportation of $1(1.
0110, Out) in gold, are largely respon
sible for the big total.
TURKS SLAYING
SUBJECT PEOPLE
I OF PALESTINE