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Newspaper Page TextUr.l .crsity of Oreaen Library X X Forty-aeventh Tear. Dally Twelfth Your, Bayonet Used to Capture Defenses of Coal City French Hold All Gains at Verdun, Repulsing Cuuntcr-At-' tacks, as Do British in Flanders Russians and Rumanians Forced Back at Several Points in the East Portion. BRITISH FKOX't IN FKAXCK AND HKLGIIM, An-. L'l (hy the Associated Press), 1 p. in ). .Most strenuous fililin.ir is pi'iiceeilinjj in tho Lens nren. The whulo line is a seething caldron. Tlio Canadians have achieved Iheir immediate oli.jeci hy drawing their lines closer to the heart of the French mining city, unless Herman eoltnter-nllacks are successful. LONDOX, An;.'. 21. Canadian troops around l.ens launched an other attack on the western environ ment of the French niiiiiny: city at 4:30 o'clock this morning, reports the lieuter correspondent from the Itrit ish headquarters in l-'rauce. The at tack developed iido one of the most ' desperate hand-to-hand! hatilles of the war. When the Canadians went, over the top they saw masses of gray figures advancing towards thctn in the thick haze. Both sides had planned' the at tack nt the same moment. Fifteen minutes after the clash came the Germans wi re making Iheir last stand on the parapet of their trench. They then retreated rap idly. Associated Press Saniniai-y. The German reaelion to the suc cessful French stroke at Verdun came last night ami the new French lines stood firm in the face of counter-attacks of extreme violence. On the front north of Verdun, especi ally at Avoeourt wood and north of Canrieres, the fighting was particu larly hitter, the French war office reports. The Germans, heaten hack, met with heavy losses. The nunihcr of prisoners taken hy the French now exceeds fiimd. The Germans also returned to the attack on the Aisne front, striking at Cerny nnd llurtchi-o. Paris reports the repulse of these assaults. Meet. Third Itepulse. On the lirilish front the Germans last night made Iheir third attempt to recapture positions recently wrcstei from them near Kpchy. northwest of St. Quentin. A determined atla wilt nui. te in which the Germans em ployed flnnic-throwcrs, lml they wcr repulsed completely hv the l'.ritisli who hold all their positions. Ilnnw fiirliling continues on the southern liiiinnni.in front. The liu show iiii.l Kumuniun-: are offering stiff resistance, lml I'ctrograd ri ports officially they have liecn force hack farther at several points. Am tro-Gerninii troops reached the southwestern outskirts of the impor tant- Moldavian town of Ocna miles southwest of the provisiona Iitiuuinian eapilal, .las-y. . On the northern l!u-sian front in crenin,r nctivifv is reported. The Germans nre liouiliarding heavily Hussion trenelles West of tile li'lga .Mituu railroad. (iennaii Official Keport. Ur'.lv'l.lX. Aiur. !1.--Thc hallle he (Continued on pu'c fo'-r.) SILVER SELLING FOR 87 CENTSAN OUNO WASIUXGTON'. Aug. 21. To in crviuo capacity of mints for coinin nuisidinrv silver, now at tlie hunt Hi'Hing of the heads of the varum "lints and suneriiitendciils of th tuveninienl's rclineries at l'env 'W York and San Fram-i-cn ha '"en called hy Director P.aker at San J'nineUeo, Septenilier 1J. Tlin highest price ever paid hv the Ewernment fr silver was recorded "'hiy i the purchase, of n lr-'' 'I'limtity at cents an ounce for "image. This U nn increase of more tlian -if) ier cent since the war started. CANADIANS LLHO HUH 1 "WEATHER Maximum yesterday, 90; edford Two Countries Have Declared War With Germany, Two Have Revoked Neutrality, Five Have Broken Dip lomatic Relations and Ten Others Are Leaninq Toward Allies. f HOW LATIN-AMERICA LINES UP WITH GERMANY At war with Germany: Culm Declaration April 7. Panama Declaration April 10. Neutral relations revoked: ltrar.il Declaration June 20. I'niguny Declaration June 18. Diplomatic relations hroken : liolivia Declaration April 14. Guatemala Declaration April Haiti Declaration June 17. Honduras Declaration May 17. Nicaragua Declaration May 1!). Neutral: Argentina, Chile, Colomhia, Costa Ifioa, Kcaador, Mexico; Paraguay, Peru, Salvador, Venezuela. (Argentina hy allowing the South Atlantic American licet to remain in liucnos Aires for eight days has seriously stretch ed the neutrality laws. Costa liica has done the same.) .WASHINGTON, I). C, Aupr. 21. owly hut surely the Mitin-Anicn- in republics are taking steps aimed nt Germany, until government olt'i mis hero expect soon to see most of (lie western hemisphere in the war ainst the Teutons. In the diplomatic game Micro arc iree steps. First, a country simply suspends diplomatic relations. This means it is still neutral. When its irritation increases, it vokes its neutrality with one of the belligerents. Finally comes the last tep a ionnal declaration ol war. Neutrality Hovokeil. Revocation of neutrality is often nil c as useful, lor instance, as n suit of this action already taken in itin-Ameriea, the vast Caribbean mil South Atlantic const line i: irgely anti-German. Leaving Mc.v o out of consideration, all ( nrili- bcan ports except those of Colombia and Venezuela are open to the allies This means tile territorial waters f Guatemala, I loniluras, Nicaragua, osla Hica (which is rated neutral hat offered her ports to American war vessels) and Panama. On the Atlantic coast America and r allies have access not only the ports of I'.ritish and I'rench liui- iinn. hut also to the tremendous t of Hrnzil and I rugiuiy, witl their great cities of liahia, Kit) Jan iro and Montevideo. Singularly, the reverse is true of Ihe Pacific coast, where all the Latin American republics have stuck sedu oiislv to their neutrality. However, onlv in the South Atlantic is there laager of German sea-raiders. Free Across (o Ports. Free access to these Atlantic oorls meiins a multiplicity oi piaccs 1 . ...n: . . . p . i.. here American anil allien pinioning eels can put in for coal, provisions, mail, messages and repairs. Hut some of these t nines otic ..il,,.,- mlv.intageo. for instance, P.razil has her fleet patrolling tn South Atlantic with our warships am (Continued on Pnuo 4) nWiCI-XONA. Sl,nln' K"ir'lav Vlll. niv courier to the French frontier. August 21-)- tl. A-.o-Hatcl Pres. (-Violent rioting has been taking place la Mnrcclona and the nrtslil'oring towns since last Mon day when a general strike was nro-,-1-,'lmed. Shooting from the roof or houses and behind clo.ed rtuttw. u... enlng on dally. A consider- .1,1, number of pone have been . ,ia killed and man; tho no reliable figures are available. VIOLENT RIOTING THRUOUT SPAIN MEDFORD. ASKS MILLIONS FOR BIG FLEET E! Congress Urged to Rush Appropria tions on Program Decided on by Navy Department Government to Expand Yards and Engine Plants to Construct as Many as Possible. WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 Con- ress will be asked for special rush appropriations for tlio immediate ex pansion of ship nnd engine building plants to carry out the big destroyer program decided upon by tlio navy department. Secretary Daniels indicated today that the shipbuilders have said the necessary expansion could he carried out only if the government paid the hill. The navy will ask immediately o start the work and will not await the regular naval appropriation bills later in tho year. Ship nnd engine builders now have all the work existing plants can do, and also are obligated to the limit of their financial arrangements. They propose that the government expand the yards and engine plants; that the private builders do the work, using their trained forces, supplemented by all the additional men that can he produced and that at the conclusion the war or tho contracts, as the government may decide, the supple mental plants either be sold to the hipbiiiiding companies or operated on government work. Details of the scheme are now being worked out nt the navy department. The destroyer program includes as many new ships of that type ns it is possible to build. HOGS SELL AT $20 CHICAGO, Auk. 21. . Choice heavy hogs sold at f 20 per hundred weight today. It marked un advance of (.1 In the last 11 days. The fol lowing table indicates the range of the price: August 1, August 1, August 1, August 1, 1014, $S.!0. 1915, f 6.85. 1916, 10.30. 1917, $16.30. August 21, 1917, J20.00. (Monday Is tho bjg day for bog re ceipts, but only 18,000 head arrived yesterday as compared with tho nor mal supply of 30,000. Tho nunihcr of hogs In the country Is said to be Increasing, but they are being slaugh tered earlier than cvor owing to high prices and the total wofsht of pork is said to have shrank alarmingly. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 21. Choice henvy hogs quoted at$20 per hundredweight in Chicago today, were quoted, hero at $1B, with no se rious shortage in sight, according to dealers... Tills quotation marked nn advance of only $1.75 per hundred- wolght Blnco August 1, the first of light grades advanced (1 per hun dredweight today. NEW YORK. Aug. 21. As a move to force all shipyards In New York and vicinity to grunt a 4.fi0 wage day, delegates at a meeting of ship yard strikers today voted to Instruct the marines trades council to call a general strike In all New York yards Including tho New York navy yard. i-smc.TOV. Aug. 21. There Is no shortage of rifles for the Amer lean forces sent to Kurope altho there may tie some delay In equipping all meii of the national army with the weapons they are to use In training. It was said officially today at the war I department I OF DESTROYERS minimum today, 55. FORECAST Tonight and toinorrow, fair. Mail Tribune OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1917 THE STORY OF GREAT RUSSIA TODAY By CHARLES EDWARD RUSSELL The Mall Trlhuno announces to Its roaders tho return to active work of its staff writer, Charles Edward Rus sell, who went to Russia on tho Root Commission by appointment of Pres ident Wilson. Mr. Russell is now writing tho sto ry, in a scries of articles, of what ho saw and heard In great Russia, and his Impressions. He will toll tho truth about the revolution, the gov ernment nnd tho thousand and one things of interest in that huge land the truth as revealed to him in his double capacity as an American offi cial and a conscientious reporter. His articles will appear exclusively in the Mall Tribune and its associato members of the Nowspaper Enter prise Association. They will be by far the most Im portant and interesting newspaper articles on tho war, to date. They will reveal the inner work ings of the Russian domocracy, Its hopes and aspirations, its plans and fears, as they could by no ono loss than the trained ohsorvor that Rus sell is. Thoy will poor behind the mystery of that sudden revolution, plorce tho obscurity that shrouds recent history, nnd bring Into the light of publicity tho motives behind tho peasant re volts against the new authority and the hidden strings that seek to wrock tho newest republic. They will explain Kerpnsky, tho Russell's First Article Answers the Query WILL RUSSIA FIGHT? Read It Tomorrow In the Mail Tribune GARFIEID SU BV FRESH AS WAS1IINOTON, Aur. 21. Presi dent Wilson cancelled the usual cab inet meeting to devote his attention to the coal situation. Tho president is about to appoint n coal adminis trator, but he has not selected the man for the place. There were outward indications to day that President Wilson was seri ously eonsideriiiK the appointment, of President Harry A. Garfield of Will iams college as coal administrator. Mr. Garfield already bus been named as a member of the food ad ministration commission. Inquiries were met with the state ment thai the president had not yet selected the num. Nevertheless, a number of ofl'icinls in touch with the situation thought Mr. Garfield n likely selection. Federal trade commission esti mates on copper and steel produc tion costs tfo to President Wilson to day for use in fixing prices .for the government's wnr needs. Figures cealled for by Ihe president on the costs of other materials soon will he completed. . W. W. REFUSE TO SKATTLK. Auir. 21.- There has been no strike of Industrial Work ers of the World in western Wash inglon ns ii re-ult of Ihe call issued at Spokane, and noie is expected by employers. There is vaiie talk nt Industrial Workers hcadipiarlers here of the general strike having been iMistponcd pending the taking of a referendum vote, I he only inipor taut labor trouble in western Wash ington at the present time is the lumber strike, concerning which ne initiations are in progress, reaching even to the white house. The lumber strike has the sanction of the Amer ican Federation of Labor, although the Industrial Workers of the World are eo-opcratimr. The strike is for establishment of the eight-hour day thruout the lumber industry. asA CHAELE3 "Now Napoleon," not as he has Pecn pleurcd, but as he is; nnd thoy will detail the wonderful stories of Siberia's prison camps when they heard tho word of freodom. They will answer nil the ques tions that nnxious Americans nro nskinjr about Russia. They will lie full of human interest ami description of nianners, customs and iHNiplo. SELECTIVE DRAFT LAW UPHELD BY T MOUNT AIRY, C!n Aug. 21 Federal District .ludgo Specr held the solcctlvc draft law constitutional In a decision hero In tho caso of a negro ropresentcd hy Thomas K. Watson Watson contended the Inw contra venes the Involuntary provision of tho constitution. WASHINGTON, Aug. 20. Judge Speer's decision In tho first ease brought to test tho draft law, was made public hy tho department of Justice. Any question as to tho act's constitutionality, officials hollnvo, Is doflnltoly and completely dlsposod of hy the supremo court decision cited by the Georgia Judge. Tho court said: "Among tho powers assigned to the national government Is tho power to raise and support nrmles. Its con trol over tho subject Is plenary and oxcltisivc. It can determine without question from any statu authority how the army shall he recruited whether hy voluntary enlistment or forced draft, the ago at which sol dlorB may serve, tlie compensation he shall he allowed and the servleo to which ho shall lie assigned." Judge Sprier held that soldiers were not slaves and that therefore the contention Hint the law was In contravention of the Thirteenth con stittitiona! amendment agaist In vol untary servitude was empty. BUSH REPLY TO POPE'S PEACE NOTE ROMK, A(is. 21. Tho. rily f lirKlsh govir,imnt to tho pracr not'B of pope llnnwllct whs liamlnrl lo Ctirrilnal Ciawparrl tlin papnl Horrntary of Htatn, hy tho llritlKh rnlnlHtor nn Monday. Tho roply nay Mm Popti' note will bo examined In a benevolent and rw-rlotiH nptrlt. WAHIIINf ;TON Auk. 21. Tho frilled KtatoH haK not yet ncknnwl cdKod receipt of Popo llenedlcfs pnaco proposals, but will do bo thru the Flrltlfth foreign ofMro which trans mitted the communication thru Am hawtador Pugo, CONSCRIPT UNO F BY LA FOLLETTE Less Bonds and More Taxes Urged by Minority Report Declares Peo ple Opposed to War Wants War Profits and Incomes of Wealthy Marie to Bear Cost of Conflict. WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.-Con- scriplion of wealth to pay for Ihe war was urged in the senate today by Senator lai Folletle of Wisconsin, in presenting tlie minority plans ot the finance cominilteo for higher rales in the war tax hill on war prof its and incomes, lie suggested in creasing the .$2,()ll(i,()00,()00 bill to more than (f'.'l,rtl(l,llllll,0(l(l hy such increases with elimination of con sumption taxes, lie also urged Ihal less bonds and more taxes be author ized. The Wisconsin senator declared governments were demanding war while their peoples were asking for peace, and contended (bat 85 per ent of Ihe men drafted are protest ing. Iyiirgo bond issued desired by wealthy interests, ho contended, in- flalo prices and increase the present high cost of living, which he asserted already imposes a fit) lo 100 per cent war burden upon tho masses. The liberty loan, he said, was made pos sible by all "iron hand within a kid glove, nnd persistent advertising methods. Wants Wealthy Taxed The pending hill, Mr. I.n Follclte tilled, provides by taxes but 17 per cent of this year's war expenses, winio iircnt. Hrituin imposes JO per cent. Next year s war expenses, he predicted, nuiv reach IflM.tmiUMM,- 11(10 or $-1(1,0(1(1,(1(10,1111(1, and he urged that Illicit war prulils nnd mooine nf wealthy pnrsons by higher sur taxes bo iiiiulo to bear tho burden of the war. rij;iiitf a Inrjjo proportion of taxes, e Wisconsin senator said: "It is a part, of the history of all jrrent wars that wealth has demanded the minimum of taxation and tho maximum of loans, wliilo the poorer classes have desired the maximum of taxation and the minimum of loans, nnd tins difference is accentuated now since war profits and excessive incomes nro hointf forced by taxation to contribute some portion of the revenues which war makes it neces sary to raise. "Wealth has never yet sacrificed itself on the allnr of patriotism in any war. (in Ihe contrary, it, lias ever shown itself eaL'er to take ad- vrfnlnno of the misfortunes which war always brings to the masses of the people. Thai has been true of every way wo have bad, ami it is certainly true of tlie present war. Wealth rnpatrlotic. "It ma v be argued that the poor oipially with the rich will have the opportunity lo participate in war bonds. It is small comfort lo have the opportunity to purchase bonds if yon have little or no money to invest, in bonds. Tim lalo 'liberty loan' w a ood example of bonds sold lo the poor or those, of limited means. All the machinery of Ihe government was set in motion to sell these bonds to tho small investor." Senator l,a Kollctle asserted (he bonds were "a poor investment to Ihe man of small means in compari son with the advantages which the owners of la re incomes could se cure from invent inLr millions of their taxable iucome-i in lhec non-taxahl' bonds," nhd continued : "We arc counselled by Ihe highest economic authorily, ue a re adnion l-tH'd hy nil liMorv, we arc com manded bv evcrv eniiidernl ion of (Continued on p:ie four.) FOR WEEK, 14.243 MiM ION, Aug. 21.. -Itrtllsli rasu hIIIok reported In the week ruilliiK to day total I 1,2 41) orflierHBiid men. Of thin number 27D poIiIIimh 1oH their lives. Tho detailed tlcurcs follow: Kllleil nnd died or wound- Offi cer. 31!.'. ; men. ills; total 2x;.1. Wounded and nihodnK Officers, 8411; men. IO,r,24; totnl 1 1 .H 7 0. To t it 1 camiultlcR, 14,2 1.1. URGED NO. 129 Terrific Smash on Ironzo Front Continues 10,000 Prisoners Are Taken Austrian Line Beginning to Bend and Give Way Under Fur- . , t,nn.,Amk ment Issued by Italian War Office Hardest FoUOht Battle Of War. Tho Austrian line on tho Isonzo front is beginning to bend and givo way at various points under the fur ious attacks of the Italians, Homo announces officially. Tho Italians tiro making progress loward a suc cess, which Ihe statement snvs is he- coming delineated in spite of undi minished resislanco by tho Italians. More than 10,000 prisoners have been taken in the new battle of Isonzo and strong Austrian defenses have fallen into the hands of attackers. Seldom during Ihe war has an official com munication been worded in such con fident terms and unless Ihe Austri ans are able to rally their shattered forces, developments of far-reaching imporlance may follow quickly. 10,000 Prisoners Taken. HOM.F., Aug. 21 Moro Hum 10,-' 000 prisoners had been taken by the Italians in their new offensive up to yesterday evening, the war office an nounces. The great battle on the Isonzo front continues without interruption. The war office slates that tho Aus- t nans' line is beginning to bend and give way at various points. The Italians, supported by floating' and fixed bull cries and monitors, are inarchinir toward success, which, tho latemcnt says, is becoming delin eated in spile of undiminished enemy resistance. Kncmy defenses between Corito ami Solo, near the strongly fortified Slarilokva position, have been cap tured by the Italians. "Over the battlefield 201 of our aeroplanes have flown," Rays tho talement. "Troops massed between Selo ami Comeno and on tho eastern slopes of Monte llermndu were bom barded. Works at the Tarvis railway center and enemy troops in movement. there were bombed with five tons of hib explosives. Ono of our pursuit machines did not return to its base. Ono enemy airplane was brought down. 10,356 Prisoners Taken "I'p lo yeslerday evening tho total number of the enemy passing into our prisoner camps was 2 '. officers ami I0.li:t Mien. Many other wounded prisoners are in Ihe field hospitals, "On Sunday night the enemy at tempted a diversion by concentrating fire ami carrying out local attacks at various points on the Trcntinn ami Cnrnin fronts. He was repulsed ev erywhere. One of his storming par lies was destroyed in Ijigarina val ley and another that had succeeded in gaining a foothold in one of our advance posts southeast of Moiilc Main nas driven back by a front eoiitiler-altack." Trieste, the Objective. LONDON, Au-. 'JO.--A dispatch to the Kxcbamrc Telegraph from Copen hagen says that, according to reports received from Austria, the battle now ra'inu' on the Nonxo front of tho Austrian-Italian theater of war is eharaeteii.cd as the most violent ever fouirhl there. The advices slate (lull il is believed by the Austrian and (ienimns that the Italians are making an attempt to break thru to Trieste. Many new trims have been brought into the fiuht, for which tho Italian-, bad been preparing for weeks. GERMAN INSTIGATES IM I'.S'ilS AII.'KS, Ariicnlina, Mon day, Aimu-I 'Jll. The priii iml in- tii;iilor oi the r nt railroad strike on the central railways ill Argentina i said lo he a Herman named Von Lulled;. This mull, it is declared, is known to the police- of the Vniteil Mutes. TRIESTE IS OBJECTIVE OF ITALIANS