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IL TRIBUNE
Forty-seventh Tear.
Dally Twelfth Year.
. MEDFOItD. OTtEflON", TUESDAY. SEPT EM WVAX 11. 1917.
NO. 147.
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'SNIPS SUNK
BY U-BOATS
Country Electrified by Announce
ment That Six Submarines Had
Been Sunk by Destroyers Convoy
ing Fleet of Merchantmen, but it
Proves Typographical Error
Only One Lost Massed Attack
Made Off Coast of France.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11. A typo
graphical error in a cablegram re
porting a submarine attack on a .on
voy of merchant ships off 1 lir oo.isl
A'Franoe on September 5, led Sec
retary Daniels to announce toil.iy
'that six submarines probably ' i
been sunk in ihe battle, when in r.v I
ity the probabilities are only one. was
destroyed.
The mistake was not discover ;d
until several hours after the eo'intr.'
had been electrified by the resort of
a wholesale slnl.:i.g of Oemian U
boats. This statement then wu.b issued
by 'Secretary Ijaniels:
Daniels1 Statement.
"My attention has just been cull
ed to a serious error mad! in tran
scribing the report of (lie attack
made on the Wcsfwego and oilier
vessels. I pave out the report to the
press this morning exactly as it was
presented to rue, statin;; that 'two
of the steamers attacked were Mini;
and probably all of the submarines
were lost.' The cablegram I now find
stilted that 'one' of the submarines
probably was lost.."
The true version, it appears, is thai
the merchant ships, of which the
Westwcgo was one, were attacked by
submarines in force off the const of
Vrnnee on September 5 and that in
'the fijjlit two of the merchant ships
were lost and probably one of the
submarines sunk. The ships wore
?onvoyed, presumably, by American
Jestroyers or other warships.
.Some statement probably will be
made later to show where I lie typo
graphical error was made which led
the nnvy department to announce the
probable loss of six submarines.
Following is the navy department's
statement as originally given out:
"The hnvy department has received
n report from Paris which states
that the steamer Westwcgo reports
on September 8 that while cruising
with several other ships, was at
tacked by n mussed force of six sub
marines off the coast of France on
September 5. The result of this at
tack was that two of the steamers
attacked 'were sunk ami) rohahly
all of the submarines were lost,"
While this does not actually stale
that American destroyers were con
voying the ship, that is believed to
be the fact.
Convoyed Merchant I'kvt.
It wns announced recently that a
policy of convoying fleets of mer
ehnnt ships across the Atlantic: had
been adopted and since the West we
po nnd the other merchant craft
which were the object of the subma
rines' attack were bound for Kurope,
it is regarded as more than probable
that American warships guarded the
' merchant ship on the way across.
American Warships have nil been
equipped with depth bombs for fight
ing submarine. This weapon ha
(Continued or Page Five.)
AMERICAN FLAG
PARIS, Sept. 11. The Ameri
can colors now fly over Verdun. The
flag, which was the gift of a promi
nent American lied Cross worker to
the rity. was lou-tcd over the ruin
of the city ball nfter a ecreninnv at
tended by the sub-prefect, Jean Gril
Un . . . . - .. -
FLYING OVER VERDUN.CHICAGO DENTIST
SIDES CLAIM
IGNORANCE OF
E
Claim as Message Transmitted Thru
Legation Was in Code, Contents
Were Unknown Explanation to be
Demanded of Germany for Misuse
of Courtesy Admits Transmitting
LOXDOX, Sept. It. The Swedish
foreign u ft ice, according to a dis
patch from Copenhagen, to the Kx
chimjfc Telegraph company, has is
sued the following statement regard
ing the Swedish-Argentinan revela
tions; "The Swedish foreign office has
not received nny nvpount regarding
the transmission of the telegrams
mentioned in the statements of the
government of the United States nnd
the Swedish government therefore, is
imahle at present to determine what
its position should he on the questions
opened up 1y these statements."
' Transmitted Messages.
It is, however, accurate to say that
just after the world war broke out
the Swedish foreign minister ex
pressed tiie opinion that he ought
to transmit n German telegram con
corning the civil population of Kino
(now (the former German fortress
in tho Chinese peninsula of Shan
tung.) "Statements to the pmtio effect
were made to the representatives of
Imlii helligerent groups without there
being any question of Sweden takin
over representation of any power's
interests.
"As regards tho United States in
particular, the United States minister
here has this year, in certain special
cases, demanded nnd obtained per
mission to transmit letters to and
from Turkey and at a time when
Turkey was not in a state of war
with America, rtnd when Sweden had
not vet taken over the protection of
American interests.
Admit Carrying Messages.
"In the summer of 101") the wish
was expressed from the Hritish side
that, the transmission of telegram,
between Germany and North America
should cease. No formal dcninnd was
made, but notwithstanding this, the
foreign minister acceded to the wish.
The Swedish minister who was cog
nizant of all the negotiations, was
of the opinion that this was not bar
to the continued transmission of tele
grams to neutral states other than
tho. United States and therefore to
Argentina. Since then, Sweden has
continued to he the intermediary for
communication, between Germany
and Argentina.
''The telegram mentioned in the
American statement .was written in
code and in tranMtiilting if the Swed
ish minister was by that reason un
able to decipher it. If its contents
were as reported is a point which the
first duly of the Swedish government
must he to confirm, and its next
action must be to get an explanation
from Germany if it be found that
nny misuse has taken place. Sweden
will also, without regard to nny ref
erence made to her, take measures
to prevent any repetition of thi: inci
dent.
Seeks Kxplanation.
"No application as to the cessa
tion of the transmission of telegrams
from Germany to the Argentine re
qublie has yet been made either by
tho Urilish or American governments,
even now or at any earlier pcritid.
"The whole affair has only become
known to the public thru the press,
but in spite of this tho wishes of
ficially and M-mi-officiully expressed
by the interested parties would nn
medtjitelv have been acceded to."
KILLED By HIS WIFE
CHICAGO, Sept. 11. Dr. George
Kiscnhrand, a dentist, was shot and
killed by his wife In bis office today.
Jealousy Is given as the cause. Mm.
hbenbranrt, who was arrested, gave
her maiden' name as Doris Wolf and
tald that she was born In Nebraska
GERMAN COD
'Nrwi ltPl l75rafK
If ' ylivifl
I w , v
President Wilson surrounded by Ills '"super-cabinet" of ten, tho "war 'maiuigers of America." Top (loft to
right), Joseph us Daniels, llcrnard llurnrli, W. CI. McAdoo, Nowton I), linker. Middle.' (loft to right), Herbert
C. Hoover, F. A. Scott, llottom (lef t to right) , Vance, McOormick, 11. A. Garfield, K. Ufl. Hurley, llobort 8.
Ivovett. - .
SENATE PASSES
WAR TAX BILL;
WASHINGTON", Sept. 11. The big
war tax bill was back today in the
hands of the house, following Its
passage by the senate last night. The
measure passed the house May 23 and
now goes to conference. Tho senate
added more than $500,000,000 to tho
hill.
It Is hoped that the differences be
tween tbe two houses may be settled
within two weeks, after which the
bill will be laid before President Wil
son for his signature.
The scnato approved the bill, G9 to
4, the negative votes being cast by
Senators Borah, Gronna, La Follette
and Norrls. The action camo after
the high-tax group bad again sought
to secure the adoption of Senator La
Follette's substitute, t oralse $3,500,
000,000 more taxes. It was voted
down, C3 to 15.
As the bill now stands, it totals
about $2,400,000,000 against the $1,
8G7. 870,000 In tho bouse bill. Of
the total, $S42,200,000 is to ho raised
by levies on incomes, corporate and
Individual, and $1,060,400,000 from
war profits. Levies on liquor, to
bacco and public utilities wltl make
up most of Hi o remainder.
MOVES USED TO
COPKXIIAGKN. Sept. 10. The
German admiralty now Is resorting
to film propaganda to raise and re
new interest In ruthless submarine
warfare. A film taken of a com
merce destroying cruise Is now being
exhibited, to bring homo to the pub
lic tho efficiency of this mode of war
fare WASHINGTON. Sept. 11. Protests
ngattist coal prices fixed by President
Wilson for Kentucky and Tennessee
wero made to the federal trado com
mission today by a delegation of op
erators. Many mines In both states
will be forced to close, the commis
sion was told, unless the prices are
revised upwards.
THE WAR MANAGERS OF AMERIC A
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11. Ameri
ca has been in the war flvo months.
In that time President Wilson has
created a super-cabinet which undor
his close direction is really running
tho war. It has powers never dreamed
of before in the United States. Of
Its ten members, six work for Uncle
Sam for nothing.
Of tho ordinary cabinet members
also members of the super-cnblnet,
there is first, Newton D. linker, tho
quiet, efficient little lawyer who used
to be tbe reform city solicitor nnd
mayor of Cleveland, and who now has
the Job of bossing the biggest armies
America has ever created- Ho large
ly dovlsed the selective conscription
hill and has been charged with carry
ing it out.
Josophus Daniels, the North Caroli
na, newspaper editor, hammered tinio
and again because he Interfered with
the graft of big. business, In Immedi
ate charge of the American navy, is
responsible not only for hunting down
German U-boats, but also for convoy
ing our transports and supply ships
to France. In addition, his orders
are law to our high seas fleet nnd to
our nnvy shipyards. Tho close of tho
war'wlll find our navy second only to
England's.
Moniltors of Wnr Cabinet. (
William Glbbs McAdoo Is one of
the' super-cabinet by reason of tho
fact that he doles out the millions to
our allies. Up to dato ho has thus
given out over $2,000,000,0(10, ' Or
course this money Is being spent right
In America for supplies, nnd McAdoo,
as the man behind the dough-hag. Is
Insisting that It bo spent as econom
ically as possible, bo tho loans will
not have to ho repeated too often.
K. N. Hurley Is chairman of tho
United States shipping board, tho
greatest marltlmo organization ever
known. This board has not only tak
en over all German ships Interned
here at the beginning of the war, but
has roinmnii'Tc, many now under
construction for foreign buyers. In
addition. It Is giving out contracts for
an Immense amount of new shipping.
Hurley's job Is to build that famous
bridge of ships across the Atlantic.
Garfield nnd Others.
Tho other man whose work affects
every American Is Professor Harry A.
Garfield, son of the martyred presi
dent, formerly a rollcge head. As
coal director all he has to do Is to tlx
. (Continued on Pag Six.)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11. Pro
gress of the wand jury uivcstigatinn
at Chicago into the I. W W. whose
offices were recently raided thriiont
the country indicates that revelations
of a nature not previous'' disclosed
are being brought to light.
Iioporls to the department of jus
tice from Frank K. Nclieker of Suit
Luke City nnd Frank 0. Daily of In
dianapolis, who are assisting District
Attorney Cline in conducting tho in
vestigation, are to the effect, it was
said today, that "satisfactory pro
gress is being; made."
Indications point more slrongly
than ever, it was said, to the conclus
ion that n small colerie of men di
rected the entire nnti-war activities
nnd program thruout the country
which had as phases the destruction
of property, resistance to the draft
law, the spread of alleged seditious
utterances thru various publications
and olhcr mediums, and other numer
ous methods intended to embarrass
tile government.
Indictments, it. was said today, may
tie banded down within a short time.
LONDON, Sept. 11. "In the last
few days, owing to unfuvoiiible
weather,'' says a Hritish official
statement, today, "operations by our
naval aircraft have been restricted.
In opcralions which occurred, how
ever, one enemy aircraft was shot
down and another was driven down
out of control.
"Mouths have been dropped on the
llouttave airdrome. Ail our ma
chines returned snfeiv."
TROOPS CALLED OUT
CHATTANOOGA, Tenti., Sept. II.
Two troops of cavalry and a ma
chine gun company from Fort Ogle
thorpe wero rushed here today In re
sponse to un appeal from city and
county officials who wero unable to
copo with tho street ear strike. The
presenco of the soldiers had the ef
feet of quieting tho situation.
SERBIAN NATION
BEINGCRUCIFIED
BY CONQUERORS
While Belgium and Northern France
Are Starved by Germans, Serbia Is
Prey to Cruelties and Barbarities
of Atistrlans and Bulgars Massa
cres and Deportations.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 "Bel
gium and norlhern France may be
starved nnd strangled by the Ger
nia ns, but Serbin is being crucified
by tho Austriuns nnd tho Bulgars.
Tho two nations vio with eatdi other
in their cruelties. They nr'e not de
terred in part by public opinion as
nre tho Germans. News has conic
out of Holgiuin, but very litllu comes
out of Serbia."
Tbe speaker wns V. M. Yoynno-
vitch, former professor in the Uni
versity of Helgrade, for nearly two
yours official government "eye-wit
ness" with the Serbian nnnics, nnd
now in this city attached to tho Serb
inn legation. For some timo before
coming hero one of his principal du
lies in ehargo of the Serbian press
bureau at Corfu, was to go thru Hul
gariau, Austrian and Hungarian
newspapers for news of what Was
happening to Serbia.
, Kxtormlimt liitf a Nut Ion.
' ''When (lie Austrian anil Hie Tlul
gars get thru, there limy be no Serb
i a ii nutioii," bo said. "Add to the
losses in Hie fighting, the dent lis from
disease nnd hunger, tho deaths from
wholesale executions for offenses
never before punished so drastically,
nnd you-get nn enormous figure.
"The Austriuns have one-third of
my country, "the Hulgnrs hold the
rest. Before the war the population
was 4,0(10,000. Serbia's generul loss
in populution amounts to 1,150,000.
From this we may have to deduct
100,000 in the Serbian army ut Su
lonika, 1l,000 wounded nnd reserves
nt Corfu and in France nnd Tunis,
154.000 prisoners in enemy countries,
50,000 civilians interned, and '.Mi.OOtl
refugees. The '.200,000 prisoners or
interned are for Ihe grentcr part
doomed to perish or become pcrmu
nently inenpicitated. So tint Serbian
losses nre roughly already 1,000,000
souls more than one-fifth of tho en
tire populution.
lcMrtcl Kn Masse.
"And the end is not yet. We know
that '.'0,000 Serbs perished when they
revolted nt Nisb nnd Prnknpilc
ngiiinst Bulgnr cruellies. According
to a statement in the Austrian purlili
tuciit. by Otokar Bihar, the Ilulgnrs
have deported over IIO.OIIO Serbs to
Asia Minor, uud about Kllllll Serbian
girls, between the ages and 10 anil 14,
have been sent to the hn reins of Con
stantinople. They have also deporled
en masse all business men, officiuts,
tcuchcrs and priests,
"Serbian is no longer allowed in
Ihe schools Bulgarians teach the
Bulgur language. In tho churches
Bulgarian priests preside. Serbian
books which were not burned have
been converted ihlo pulp for making
new paper. Children arc sent hv the
wholesale into Austriu. In one Hun
garian paper I saw that 800 were
interned at llmiiuu, uud Hungarian
teachers had been supplied. The
(Continued on pago six.)
KANSAS CITV, Mo., Sept. 11,
Six hundred employes of Armour and
company, and 400 from the Morris
and coiupanv packing plants toiiav
joined the 11000 packing plant opera
tives from Wilson nnd oonrpuny,
Swift anil ootnpnny, Cudiihy's and
the Kuddy plant, raising the total of
workmen out to 40011.
Patrick F. Gill, representative of
of conciliatory bureau of the depart
ment of labor, is working for un nr
bitrntion of llie difficulties.
E
Troops Detrain at Dno Government
Forces March to Oppose No Clash -Between
Rival Forces as Yet
Generals Favor Korniloff, Fleet
Loyal to Kerensky Cossacks
Send Ultimatum Maximalists Al
so Threatening Assembly Called
PKTKOGHAD, Sept. 11. General
Korniloff lias ordered his troops to
detrain at the railroad station at
Dim nnd to march on and besiege the.
city of I'ctrograd. Government in
fantry still is moving out of the onpi
Uil to oppose Korniioff'a forces. '' '
Generul Denikino, commander of
tho Kussiun armies on tho southwest
ern front, has telegraphed to Pre
mier Kerensky flint he intends to
support General Korniloff.
The enliro Itnllie fleet, together
with its staff officers, has unani
mously placed itself on tho side of
the provisionul government. ; . '
Ueulonnut-Cienerul Dmitri Steher
bntehoff, commander of tho Russian
forces on the Rumanian front, has
ordered his armies mid nlso the Odes
sa military district to lake no part
in the coui iii't, u. the same time re
maining hue to the provisional gov
ernment. No llcport of Clash.
PKTIiOGHAD, Sept. 11. No re
port has yet been received of a col
lision between government troops nnd
the forces of General Korniloff which
nre coming toward Petrograd. Lt is
officially stated that a part of the
rival forc.es met nenr I.uga and com
inuniculed with each other without
hostilities breaking out. One of Gen
eral Kornilol'fs detachments is snid
lo be iidvnncing from tho Narva.
Ilolh sides' are still organizing and
appealing for support.
The Bourse Gazelle snys the caval
ry which Generul Korniloff sent
against the capital readied Dno, 120
miles from Petrograd. The military
seelion of the council of soldiers
and workniens delegates at Petro
grad bud sent emissuries to ex
pluin the character of the movement
to Ihe officers of the Korniloff cav
alry. The delegates delivered Premier
Kerenskys order of Ihe dnv nnd the
advance of Ihe cavalry stopped at
Dim to uwnil. further instructions.
Kerensky Wires Italli-oads.
Premier Kerensky hns sent instruc
tions by wireless telegraphy lo till
railroad organizations, requiring the
officials lo refuse to obey nny or
der from Generul Korniloff. The pre
mier has received a telegram from
the eonunuudcr of the Bnltic fleet
promising support.
It is stated thai General Kaledines,
alaman of the Cossacks, hns tele
graphed lo Premier Kerensky threat
ening Ihnl if lie docs not neeodo to
Generul Koruiloffs demunds the Cos.
sucks will cut the Moscow railway,
thus isolating Petrograd,
Trouble for Ihe Kerensky govorn-
(Contlnued on pngo six.)
DF RAW MATERIALS
PARIS, Sept. 11. The Italian gov
ernment Is considering a series of
measures which It Is expected will
limit the loliHiiinpMon of foodstuffs
ami raw materials, according to a
Huvas agency dispatch from Itome.
The measures, which It Is proposed to
put Into effect in tho near future, In
cluding tho rationing of foods classed
us necessities, tho monopoly of shoe
production hy the state, suppression
after September 15 of private auto
mobiles except those used by officials
and diplomats, and other measures of
a llko nature.
ITALIAN LlMITATIOrl