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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