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i Forty-seventh Tear.
Dally Twelfth Year.
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Battle Now Raging From North Sea
to Verdun With Allied Forces Ev
erywhere Victorious Italians
tf&ke Further Progress in Smash
y at Austrians Germans Start Of
fensive in Riga Sector.
BRITISH FRONT IN . FRANCE
AND BELGIUM, Aug. 22 (by the As
sociated Press), 5:45 p. m.). In the
Langemarck-Frezcnberg sector of.
the Belgian front tho British have
forced their way to a considerable
depth into the German defenses mid
have been fighting in the neighbor
hood of Hill 35, tho ridge where the
Irish recently were forced hack.
Southeast of Ypres in a distinct lo
cal operation near Inverness Coscf
tho British are meeting with deter
mined enemy resistance.
Another of the rapid succession of
blows which tho British and French
are striking at various points along
the Franco-Belgian front fell this
morning on tho Germans in the reg
ioiiiif Ypres, where tho British were
held up last week in their drive in
conjunction with the French forces
to the north. At dawn the British
advanced over tho fiercely contested
field between Langcmarck and I'Ycz
enberg. No details have been re
ceived, this morning of the new bat
tie which is being fought over a sec
' tion strongly organized by the Oer
I mans with concrete redoubts and ma
chine gun nests in shell boles.
Sharp fighting continues around
the conf mining center of Lens, in the
outskirts of which the British are
making progress in spite of the de
termined resistance of the Germans.
French. Hold Gains.
The Germans last night continued
their efforts to recapture ground
gained in the new French offensive
on the Verdun front. Heavy counter-attacks
were made on both sides
of the Jfeuse, and altho the Germans
were able to gain a footing temporar
ily in the new French positions at
points, they were soon driven out.
The number of prisoners taken by the
I'renoli has reached (II Hi. Several
strong attacks by the Germans on
the Aisne front during the night were
repulsed.
Vienna, concedes that the Italians
have forced hack the Austrians at
some points in the new battle of the
Isonzo. The Austrian war office re
ports the loss of the village of Sclo
on the Carso fronl, and of territory
below Auzza, on the Isonzo south of
Tolmino. It is said more than 5(i00
Italians have been captured.
Offensive nt Itlga.
The Germans have opened an of
. fensiv.e on the extreme northern end
L of the Russian front. They struck
between the river An and the Tirol
marshes, a belt of lowlands between
Aa and the Dvina, I'ctrograd report.
initial success for the Germans, who
compelled the Russians to withdraw
as much as two miles at some points.
If the fighting now under way do-
velos into a sustained attack, the
firf.objcctivc of the Germans an
doubtedly will ho the important Rus
sian port of Riga. Possession of this
city would be of immense advantage
to the Germans in land or sea opera
tions against the Russian northern
Hank.
; llcrlin Admits Ijovcn,
i HKIil.IN, Aug. 22. French troops
, have gained a footing in the south
i eastern part of Avocourt wood and
j on the knolls to the east of that tosi-
(Continued on paga tlx )
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 2. Admin
istration of the oxpo:t control act w
i taken from the department of com
merce by President Wilson today and
; given to the export advisory board.
I The purpose of the move, It was ex-
plained. Is to simplify procedure In
the guarding of export licenses.
WTCATIIER
Gerry Amendment Increasing Sur
taxes on Incomes Exceeding Half
Million Dollars Adopted Lewis
Charges Multimillionaires With
Swindling Government.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22. After
protracted debute in which many sen-
j.ators urged heavier levies on income
and war profits in tho war tax bill,
the senate today tentatively adopted
fSenator Gerrv's amendment, which
would add $-10,375,000 by greatly in
creasing surtaxes on incomes ex
ceed ing $500,000.
Under' the Gerry amendment, the
total tax levy on all millionaires' in
comes, including the present law,
would bo C7 per cent. With the
Gerry amendment tho bill would ag
gregate $2,0.15,000,000, with several
amendments by Senator La Folletlc
ponding for further increases in the
income tax rates.
The Gerry amendment was adopt
ed without a dissenting vote.
All of the Lenroot amendments as
looted by the house were retained
by the senate alter reductions pro
posed by the finance committee were
rejected on two test, votes.
Charges of Swindling.
Charges that the government has
been defrauded out of fully $300,
000.0011 in income, taxes evaded by
Hie wealthy were made in the senate
today by Senator Lewis of Illinois,
who declared the treasury depart
ment had the proofs.
Senator Lewis was speaking in
support of Senator Gerry's amend
ment to the war tax bill to greatly
increase, taxes on great incomes.
"There has been inconceivably in
genious lying on life income lax
schedules before the finance commit
tee thai, would in other forums sub
ject those responsible to perjury,"
said he.
lrfiss Is $:!0(lf(H)o,()0O.
"In the treasury department at
this hoar is proof of $300,000,000
swindled out of the government by
fraud, perjury, deception and other
different forms of commercial trick
cry on the income tax returns. If it
hail not been for a certain set of men
who, prating loudly about nnpatriot
ism and crying for war, there would
have been no necessity lor levying
the heavy burdens of this bill."
Senator Lewis also said that bad
Ibis set of very wealthy men shown
fidelity anil honesty in making their
income tax returns the guvernmcnl
would in past years have had ample
funds for preparedness purposes.
SECOND CALL 10
COLORS WILL BE
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22. A full
statistical report on tho operations of
tho draft law will be prepared by the
provost marshal-general's office as
soon as tho mobilization of tho first
increment of fJKi.ftOo men of the na
tional army has been completed some
time early In October.
Pending tho preparation of the re
port, no flops toward calling a second
Increment to the colors will lie taken
General Crowdor said today that the
call for the second Increment never
had been considered at any confer
ence at which he was present, and
that he had no indication that It had
been taken up In any way by Pros!
dent Wilson or Secretary Hakor.
The first Increment will fill all tho
training areas sixteen national
guard camps and sixteen national ar
my cantonments to capacity and
there will he a surplus of men bosldo
those assigned to the regular army.
Tho regulars are now 12, ino above
full war strength by voluntary enlist
nient and the national guard Is In a
similar situation.
Training tarllllies already are tax
ed to make ready for the men now
available and It Is regarded as unlike
Iv that organization of an additional
riOO.onn men of tho national army
enn be begun until the early spring
of 1 f.s,
Maximum yesterday, 90; minimum today, 53. FORECAST Tonight and tomorrow,
, MEDFORD.
R US SI A WILL FIGHT! ' '
Declares Russell in First Article After Return
From Russia With the Root Commission
No Braver Men on Earth Than Ma
jority of Russian Soldiers
Greatest Danger Russia Has to
Face Is Peace Talk In the United
States. '
Charles Edward Russell lias spent
three months in Russia as a mem
ber of the American commission to
the new Russian government, which
was headed by Eliliu Root. His op
portunities for observation and in
vestigation of Russian conditions
were unparalleled, as nil the re
sources of the provisional govern
ment were placed at his disposal.
The commission has just returned to
this country, and Russell, lifter clos
ing his immediate official business,
has started to writo the truth about
Russia. His first article is printed
today, tomorrow he tells .the facts
and truth about the Russian revolu
tion.
. By CI! AS. EDWARD RUSSELL.
(Copyright, 1017, by the Newspaper
Enterprise Association.)
Will Russia fight t
Of the thousands of eager ques
tions plumped at the Root commis
sion, of which I was a member, since
it enfuc back to American sod, this
has outnumbered all the others to
gether.
Will Russia fight t
Yes. Russia will fight. Sho will
fight with courage, skill, persistence
and success. She will . put up a
Irictly first class article of fight
and she will win with it.
Up to UnlU'd States,
Provided only that she gets any
kind of a fair chance and that the
United Stales of America will lot her
fight. ' . ; ,. - ,;
I find that millions of us seem to
have this whole Russian business
wrong end to. Wo think, for in
stance, that if Russia is not now
pushing the war vigorously the rea
son is that the Russians have a
great, broad streak of yellow in them
yellow and not much else.
This is the most monstrous fake
and lie that was ever believed by one
nation of another. It is n slander
and a libel and ought to ho dropped,
buried and forgotten.
i.Yono liiavor Than Russians.
There nro no braver men on tho
face of this earth than the great ma
jority of the Russian soldiers. Ask
anyone that lias seen them in action,
ask those that saw the- marvelous
and almost incredible heroism dis
played by the Russian army in the
famous movements of tho summer of
1015. Ask anyone that can tell you
of the musses of Russian soldiers
that have gone unarmed against the
best equipped Iroops in the world and
have fought them with bare bands.
To hear the uninformed casting rc
flcclions upon the valor of such men
or sneering at the Russian nation as
"yellow" is a hard strain on patient
tolerance. 1
The real reason for the npparcnt
halt and hesitation on Russia's part
since Ihc revolution is something very
different. What it is 1 hope to be
able to make clear in the articles thai
will follow this, and I think you will
agree before I nm thru that harsh
(Continued on page six.)
TRAGEDY OF SEA
AN ATLANTIC PORT, Aug. 22.
A succession of wireless calls, telling
the story of a sea tragedy of which
an unknown steamship was the vlr-
tlm of a German submarine aro re
corded in the log of a neutral steamer
which arrived horo recently from a
Scandinavian port.
The calls were recorded while tho
neutral vessel was passing closo to
tho Irish roast on her way to this
port and began with the Internation
al "3. O. S." followed by messages
telling of tho crew abandoning the
ship after It had been chased and
shelled by a submarine.
The neutral vessel, forbidden by
regulations to go to the rescue, re
layed the call and In about 20 min
utes pirked up a radio from an Amer
ican destroyer reading: "We will
reach you In one hour,"
OREGON, WEDNESDAY,
Russell
ftWoi ""nSrawEN up
ON BRITISH COAST
MEETS REPULSE
(LONDON, Aug. 22. Ten Gorman
airplanes approaclfcd the English
coast on tho County of Kent today,
the HiitlHh war office announcos.
Two of the raiding, machines woro
brought down.
Bombs woro dropped at Dovor (an
important naval base on the English
channol) and at Margate. Throe
persons were killed and two Injured.
The statomcnt says tho raiders wero
unable to penetrato far Inland.
An air raid warning was Issued In
London this morning. About an hour
later tho announcement "all clear"
waB made, Indicating that the raldors
had been driven off.
German airships mado a raid off
the Yorkshire coast last night, it is
also announced officially. So far bh
has boen ascertained tho damago In
flicted was small.
Tho announcement follows:
"The enemy In mini born not defi
nitely ascertained, appeared off tho
Yorkshire coast (in northern Eng
land on tho North Sea) last night.
One of tho raiders attacked tho
mouth of tho Dumber and was flrod
on by anti-aircraft guns. She dropped
some bombs, then made off to sea.
"Tho damage so far reported Is
slight. Ono man was Injured."
Official lteMirt.
The communication Issued by Lord
French, commander-in-chief of the
home forces, says:
"Ten enemy airplanes approached
over the Kentish coast near Hams
gate about 10:15 a. ni. Being met
and heavily nngngeil by machines of
tho royal flying corps and royal naval
air service, and also by gunfire from
antt-alrcraft guns, tho raiders were
unablo to penetrate Inland.
"A small party traveled west to
Margate, but then turned homeward
Tho remainder skirted tho coast to
the south as far aH Dover.
"Ilomhs were dropped at Dovor and
at Margate. Casualties reported up
to the prosent were three persons
killed and two In lured. The material
damage was slight. Two enemy ma
chines were brought down by anti
aircraft gun flrn and by our own air
planes." GERMANY TO PROHIBIT
SMOKING IN STREETS
AMSTKKHAM". 4 hit. .-Accord
ing to lic Morten Pot of Berlin, I lie
police in fiemmny intend to prohibit
smoking in the street m m view of the
decline of tobacco stock?. Tit pro
hibition wilt he extended lo the whole
of (lerntanv.
AITiiFST 22, 1917
AFTER 180 SHOTS
FIRED AT U-BOAT
AM ATLANTIC I'OlfT, Aug. 22.-
Tho Standard Oil lank steamer Cam
pana, whose captain and live of her
navy gunnci'H were taken prinonerK
by n German submarine on August 0,
surrendered to Iho U-boat, hut. only
because she had not another shot to
fire. Tlio Camnana's ammunition,
alter firing H0 shots,1 became ex
hausted.
Passengers on board tho French
liner Haiil I hey beard that tho Gor
man U-hoal shortly after its attack
on the ( 'a in n tin. was sunk by 0
French pulrol boat.
This was Ihc slory told by J. II.
Bruce, third male of Iho Cumptimi,
who, with forty other incmberH of
tho Caiiipana's crew and eight gun
iiers, arrived loday on a French hat
tlcship. The baltle began al. 5 a. in.
ami was waged for four hours at a
range of between 711011 and 7."i()0
yards.
The U-boat fired -111(1 shols, only
two of which hit the mark. The
Campagna, nevertheless, was out
ranged by Ihc Iwo guns, one four
inches, Hie other two-inch, wilh
which the submarine was armed. The
lT-bont also was fully as sccily as
Ihc American vessel.
After Ihc ('ampulla hoisled thu in
tcrnnliiinu! signal of surrender, her
last shell gone, Ihc submarine never
Ihclcss continued to fire, Itrucc said,
and all hands took to Ihc boats,
'fhc I'-boul commander i'ii-l a
proai-lu-d Ihc limit iMMrimiinib-d by
I'nu'c, whii-h hud aboard the Cam
puna's thirteen naval gunners, and
ordered it alnng-ide. He then went
to the lifelinal occupied by Caplain
Albert Oliver of the Campaga and
took him prisoner.
Having room eiinuh only fir six
additional men aboard his craft, the
ticrmaii skipiM-r made only five of the
gunners prisoners, Uruec said. These
iiii-ludcil the chief gunner and two
petty officers, fine of the gunners,
whose name was Miller, was included
bei-iiu.-e he could speak (leniian.
The submarine was the 1-2. Itrucc
did not learn the cominaiulcr'H inline.
The (ionium told him, he said, that
he hail lir'l fired a torpedo at the
('uinpaiui, but had missed, the projee.
tile apparenlly passing under the
-tcanisliip.
T.liOOKLYN, X. Y., Aug. 22.
First game (22 innings) :
I'itl-bunr b n 1 (I II i 2 (1 0 (I 0
(I II II A II 0 II 0 II II 0 Ill; 2.
Itrooklvn I 2 2 II 0 II (I II 1 0 0
0 (I (I 0 0 0 0 0 0 (I 1--(i; 2H; 4.
Cooper and V. Wanner, Schmidt ;
Cndore, Mariitard ami Miller,
fair and warmer.
GERMANS SEEK
DISSENSION FOR
U. S. IN MEXICO ON PEACE TERMS
Newspaper Propaganda Being Con
ducted to Stir Up Trouble for
America and Create Impression
That Germany Is Victorious and
U. S. and Allies Defeated.
MEXICO CITY, Aug. 22. Friends
of Germany arc conducting In Mexico
newspaper propaganda against the
United States, but up to tho present
time the efforts have failed of tholr
purpose Insofar as tho better educat
ed and Influential classes of Mexico
aro concerned. There Is reason to
believe that It has hnd no effect on
men prominent In public life,, those
associated with tho government or
the hlgli officers of tho arpiy, but it
seems certain that the Gorman cam
pnlgn has exerted a certain influonco
over tho uneducated Mexicans.
Tho lino followed haa had for Its
ond tho convincing of tho moro Ignor
ant classes that tho friendly advances
of the Unitod States are not to bo
trusted, and that country Is steadfast
In tho aim of overthrowing tho sov
ereignty of Mexico and seizing for its
own either by oconomlc moans or by
force tho territory botwoeu the Rio
Grande and Panama.
Upload False Xowa.
Tho Germans also hnvn made
strong offorts to spread the bollof
that tho allies aro In desporuto straits
for men, ships and money and that
the tiltlmnto victory of tho control
powers Is assured.
So far as Is known II. von Eck
hardt, tho Gorman nilnhstor, keops
hlmsolt and nls Iminedlalo subordi
nates aloof from Ihls propaganda, tho
direction of which, It Is understood, Is
In the hands of It. Liibock or Von
Luhock, a wealthy retired Gorman
merchant. It Is known that Von Lu
hock sent messages to Gorman con
suls thriiout Mexico last May asking
them to disseminate tho now that
Von Krkhardt had been enthusiasti
cally received by tho crowds at tho
opening of tho Mexican congress
while tho Amerlcnti ambassador hud
been greeted by marks of disapproval.
" Not Confined lo Capital.
Gnrmnn propaganda has not been
confined to tho capital. Strong ef
forts to Influence public opinion have
been mado In Guadalajara and Puo
bla and other cities, but so far as
can be estimated havo met with little
sticess. Pro-German meetings were
stopped by tho authorities on at least
two occasions in Guadalajara.
There has been a marked Influx of
Germans to Mexico City. The greator.
pin t of tho new coiners seem in pros
permia clrciimstnncen and many of
them speak Spiinbdi fluently. It Is
supposed they come, for Iho most
part, fron. Cuba and Central and
South America.
TO FIX PRICES FOR
STEEL PRODUCTS
WASHINGTON, An. '22.- Presi
dent Wil-nn held nnolher personal
conference t the (Vdcrnl tnide eoni
itiiHhinn Inle toddy on phut for fur
iher fixing prices of eonl from mine
to consumer.
The proi.Icnt iiImi decided the
Hteel price situation on which the
comtnis-ion ha made an extensive
investigation and report as n pre
liminary for pii'e fixing.
flavin determined the price to he
charged for bituminous coal at the
mines Ihrnoiit the country, President
WiNott today turned hi attention
auain to the task of selecting u man
to head the coal admiuisl ration. Hu
mors today name President Harry A.
(tarfield of William college, now
head of the eommittee fixing prices
on wheat, as the likely appointee.
The president nto mum uill fix the
coal prices to he chatted by middle
men Hnd retailers.
The president i believed to have
abandoned the federal trade eommis
ion proposal to eommandeer the out
put of the mines and sell the product
to the iiblie,
Ur.i crslty si Oregon
' iiwary
no. ino
T
Difference of Opinion Between Ber
lin, Vienna and Sofia Austria
Desires Complete Acceptance of
Papal Note, Germany Conditional
Acceptance.
11KRNR, Aug. 22. In diplomatto
circles tho passage In the speech of
Dr. Goorge Michaelis, tho German
chancellor, In which he said:
"Notwithstanding efforts to hasten
a decision it has not yet been possible
for Germany to agree with hor allies
concerning a joint reply to the papel
note," Is interpreted as indicating a
dlfforenco of opinion between Berlin
and Vienna and also between Vienna
and Sofia.
Asutrla, according to reports, do-
slres complete acceptance of tho pa- '
pal note, whoroas Germany wishes
only conditional acceptance and Bul
garia denmnds public assurances by
her allies that the may annex tho
territories now occupied by hor.
Socialist for Peace.
COPBNHAGEX, Aug. 22. After
Chnncellor "Michaelis had Informed
the main committee of tho Reichstag
Tuesday that Germanw would not re
ply to tho papal peaco noto until sho
had consulted her allies, socialist
speakers who followed hlin said they
welcomed the pope's action as thoy
would welcome any stop cnpablo of
bringing pence, and nil the more be
cause it was expected to boar results.
Tho liberals declared thomsolvos In
agrooment with tho chancellor's sym
pathotlo interpretation of the pope's'
action, Tho centrists associated thom
solves with tho chancellor's Tomarks
and Bald the popo's proposal marked
extraordinary valunblo progress to
ward poaco which wns so ardontly
iloslrod 'by all nations. Thoy hoped
tho act of his hollnoBB would moot
with full S1ICC0BS. - '
Ansh'lii Fnvoniblo.
COPKNIf AURN, Auk. 23. Thfl VI-
011 mi NolchnpoHt Hays It has roltiiblo
Information that tho pope's peaco
noto Is In absolute harmony with tho
nims of tho monarchy. Austrla-llun-Kary,
according to the paper, la will
inR to ovacuato occupied territories
and renounce claim to IndomnltieH
onrn the pope's ideas of disarmament,
international arbitration and free
dom of the seas aro Rimrantond and
world peaco is carried out, lint all tho
coiiHequences rieduclblo from tho'
popo's proponals muHt bo undorslood
to bo Included therein, namely, tho
disappearance of tho British naval
banes at Gibraltar, Malta and tho
Sue, canal and also the Italian aban
donment of Varona.
IT(
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22. The Im
perial Japanese mission arrived today
on n special train from San Krnnclsco,
its port of arrival. Accompanied by
a cavalry guard, tho distinguished
visitors woro escorted In motors to
their official residence by Secretary
Lansing and othor IiIkIi government,
officials. While here tho mission will
slay H tho homo of Perry Helmont, a
grandson of Commodora Perry, whoso
visit to Japan resulted In the opening
of the country to foreigners.
No official engngenienls were mndo
for tho mission today hut beginning
tomorrow it will bo vory busy. Vis
count !hil, head of tho mission, will
first officially call on Secretary Lans
ing. Tomorrow nighL tho mission
will dine at tho Whito Ilonso and Krl-.
day will illno with the secretaries of
slate, war and navy.
Tho personnel of tho mission fol
lows: Viscount Ishll, Vico-Admlral
Takctdilla. Major-General ftugnnn,
Commander Ando and Colonel Tani
kawii, .Masiino, llaiinara, consul-general
at San Francisco; Matsuio Na
na!, secretary of tho foreign office;
Tadenao Imal, vice-consul at llono-,
lulu; Yoshlro Owaku, secretary, and
Ootiglift I. Ilunbar, American secre
tary to the mission.
CENTRAL STATES
ANN
AGREE