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Forty-etichth Year.
Dally Thirteenth Tear.
MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1918
NO. 39
TRAUAMS
MEBFORD
M
AUS
HIT
me
FOR GA
MS
PU
BACK ALONG
AMIENS LINE
Australians Conduct Successful Mi
nor Operations, but Large Armies
Mark Time On Battle Front Await
ing Shock of Renewed Hun Offen
siveRainy Weather Delays Oper
ations Fresh Allied Troops Pour
ing In to Check Next Effort.
WITH THE BRITISH AMMY IN
FRAN'CE, May 8. (By the Associat
ed Press.) The Australians last
night made another advance, push
ing forward their lines 500 yards
along a front of 600 yards near Sallly-Le-Sec,
on the sector east of Amiens.
They also pushed back the Germans
300 yards along a front of 500 yards
west of Morlancotirt, lust above Sall-ly-Le-Sec.
. N6twlthstanding a heavy
barrage the Germans woro unable
to prevent their advance.
ASQIJ1TH
ASKS
VOTEOFCENSUR
E
FOR
MINISTRY
Cabinet Crisis Forced as Result of
Charges By Maurice That Premier
Made Misstatements Lloyd
George to Reply Disclosing Facts
Hitherto Withheld.
DECIPHER CODE
USED BY AGENTS
OF BERNSTORF
F
Means of Communication Employed
By German Ambassador to Amer
ica for Directing Sabottage and
Hun Activities Reconstructed and
. Turned Over to oGvernment.
Americans In Italy.
NEW YORK, May 8. The pres
ence of an American "contingent"
and a Bohemian legion on the Italian
front Is reported In a dispatch from
Austrian war press headquarters,
dated April 8, to the Berliner Tagc
blatt, a copy of which has been re
ceived here. The number of sup
posed Americans or to what arm of
the service they belong Is not report
ed by tho newspaper correspondent
who adds that the British and French
auxiliary troops are no longer on the
Italian front.
Await Now Snuudi.
HY ASSOCIATKI) I'RKSS, Mny 8.
Along the buttle lines in northern
France, the allied troons still uwuit
the shock of renewed licavy fightin;;
bv the Germans. Apparently the
rniny weather has interforred n great
ileal with the enemy's transport nml
lie lins not been able to perfect bis
niTuniTcments because of t lie dilficul
lies of hringine; his supplies over the
hatlle lorn (.'round of Flanders and
l'icnrdy.
Having gained some advantageous
positions in local fVhtinjr, the al
lies arc waiting for the next effort
of the (lemiiins, which already has
been delayed much longer than in
previous lulls since the beginning of
the offensive on March "Jl.
Fresh Trops Pour In.
Meanwhile, fresh troops and new
supplies are pouring in to strength
en the allied positions ntul this fact
must also add to J tie perturbation of
the enemy who has nothing remark
able in military achievement to show
for his heavy losses of the past seven
weeks'
The artillery fire continues violent
on important sectors. Ibe Germans
are shelling heavily the Anglo-French
front southwest of Ypres nnd the sec
tor south of the Soinmc between Vil-lcrs-lSrctonncux
and Ilailles. These
sectors saw tho henvy fighting pre
vious to tho German repulse north of
Mont Kcmmel nine days ago. F.nemy
fire, against the southern sile of the
Arras sector, which lies north of
Albert, also has been Intense.
Kjcecpt for fruitless patrol raids by
the AustrinhS nnd limited artillery
LONDON. May 8 The govern
ment bus issued a summons to its
supporters, requesting their attend
ance in the house of commons when
Mr. Asquith will move n resolution
which, if carried, will be "a vote of
censure of the government."
"A division is absolutely certain,"
says the call.
'According to the press association
the proiiosnl to ask an investiga
tion by two judges of charges made
by General Frederick H. Maurice,
formerly chief director of military
operations, may be regarded as
withdrawn as the suggestion did not
upjtcal to the bouse and its rejection
by Mr. Asquith and his followers
rendered it worthless.
l.loyd (icorgo to Reply.
As a coiiseipience of tile political
situation brought ubout by General
Maurice's letter, l'remier Lloyd
George, according to the lobby cor
respondent of the Daily, Telegraph,
considers it unavoidable- to disclose
facts which have been withheld up
to this' time for' military reasons.
The-premier, it 'is added, intends to
give facts and figures when he
speaks on the Asquith motion on
Thursday.
It is doubtful whether any inquiry
will be held and it is likely the
premier will give the fullest possible
information consistent with public
safety, citing figures in proof of his
statement of the relative strength of
the army in January, lill.7, nnd Jan
uarv. I'll 8. As rcirards other mat
ters involved in the statement oil
General Maurice, who in a letter ap
jHuinng , in hondon newspncrs
charged Andrew Honnr Law, chan
cellor of the exchequer, and l'remier
Lloyd George with having made mis
statements in the house of commons
regarding military matters, it is un
derstood nn explanation perfectly
consistent with both versions will be
made.
General Maurice.
The most talked of man in Eng
land today is General Maurice.
If some volunteer general or some
soldier who had graduated from sd
ilics or business into soldiering had
defied and trampled upon all, th
laws and traditions of the Hritish
army and all armies, he would not
have excited such enormous sur
prise as has General Maurice in hit
now famous letter impugning the ver
acity of the minister. Had some less
well trained officer written the letter
it would have been put down to lack
of tradition nnd disregard of the con
ventionalities.
lint General Maurice in his person
ality, and his record has been the per
sonification of all that is convention
al, austere and correct in the profes
sional soldier. His weekly, and re
cciitly bis bi-weekly conferences with
American newspaper correspondents
have impressed them with bis wide
knowledge, a passion for accuracy in
detail and bis orsonnl aloofness, ns
BAKER AND PERSHING ON FLAT CAR STUDYING MAP.
ALBANY, N. Y., May 8. The Von
Bernstorff code, the means of com
munication employed by the German
foreign office to keep In touch with
Count Von Johann Bernstorff, for
mer German ambrsador, while he
was directing sabotage and other
German activities in the United
States, has been deciphered, recon
structed and turned over to this gov
ernment by Attorney General Mer
ten E. Lewis, It is announced today.
This was the same code which Hugo
Schmidt, Hid alleged paymaster In
this country of the German foreign
office, attempted to destroy In the
furnace of a German house of New
York City.
Wliut Words Meant.
According to the code, It was stat
ed at the office of the attorney gen
eral, the words "a boy was born yos-
terday, both well," meant "the re
mittance of Gorman war loan bonds
mentioned In your wireless arrived
safely." Hugo Schmidt's code name
was "Sydney Pickford.'' Bolo Pasha
was known as "St. Regis," Captain
Boy-ed as "Richard Huston," and
Captain Von Papen as "Thomas
Hoggson."
The Gorman foreign office was
coded as "William Foxloy." Copper
and wool, large quantities of which
wore obtained for shipment Into Ger
many thru neutral countries, were
coded as "Yadkin bonds,' 'and "south
ern Norfolk bonds" respectively.
Deciphering Code.
Fragmentary evidence of the code
which was discovered In the office
of Schmidt enabled Deputy Attorney
General Alfred L. Becker to recon
struct the puzzling means of commu
nlcatlon. Thousands of wireless mes
sages in Schmidt's files contained the
body and key to the codo. From
these papers the attorney general
largely built up and deciphered the
code.
(Continued on Page Six.)
FOR EASTERN POLICY
AMSTERDAM, May 8. Herr von
Payer, the imjierial German vicc
ihanecllor, announced in the main
committee of the reichstag today thai
a special department will be estab
lished to regulate uniformly Ger
many's w hole eastern policy. The de
partment will direct the border
states under orderly government. The
department, he ndils, will be incor
porated in some exitih; imperial de
partment.
(Continued on Page Six.)
WAN! THEIR TOBACCO
PARIS, May 8. Leading French
suffragettes are protesting against
the new regulations under which wo
men are excluded from the privileges
of the distribution of tobacco by
card.
Madame Dwltt Schlumberger, alt ho
favoring prohibition of the use of to
bacco by minors, considers the ap
plication of the restrictive measure
to women exclusively as arbitrary and
unjust. Other leaders ofthe feminist
movement have expressed themselves
likewise.
This photograph shows ioiioral Pershing (left) and, next to him, Socrctnry Baker, m-atoil on top of a
flat car with, other American officers, studying tho may on an engineering projoct t an American trans
portation ceiiter in France, Tiio plrtiiro was snnpiK'd during linker's resent Inspection of Iho Amerlcun
forces almoad.
TWO BILLIONS
U.S.
AUSTRIAN FLEET
WASHINGTON, May 8. Serious
disturbances In the Austrian-Hunga
rian fleet have caused changos In the
high command, a dispatch today from
Switzerland said. The crows, com
posed largely of Slavs and men of
Italian descent, have made a great
deal of trouble and tho disturbances
wore put down with difficulty.
WASHINGTON, May 8. The cost
pius contracts of tho submarine boat
companies at Newark, N. J., for con
struction of 160 steel ships of 5000
tons each have been cancelled, Chas
M. Schwab, production director of
the emergency fleet corporation, to
day told the senate commerce com
mission In an investigation of the
company's work. New contracts were
substituted on a flat basis of $960,-
000 for each ship.
Cost-plus contracts at the Hog
Island and Bristol, Pa., government
yards were continued, Mr. Schwab
said. The substitution for the (New
ark Bay yard was designed to speed
up construction.
Estimates submitted to congress
today by the shipping "board call for
an appropriation of $2,223,835,000.
For the cost of construction or
ships authorized by an approplratlon
of $1,386,100,000, and for the pur
chasing and requisitioning of plants
and materials $652,000,000.
AMERICA : DEFIES
10
WASHINGTON, May 8. In lo.
fiance of the German siilmmrinf H, the
I'nited States is semlin grit in to
Switzerland nhoiml armed .ships un
der heavy naval convoys prepared to
make their way 'through tho danger
zoneH. The grain ships left an At
lantic, port some time ngo, two more
sailed last week and others will go
soon.
The decision to supply Switzerland
immediately without wailing the ex
piration of the three months' time
limit set by Germany for notifying
her submarine commanders that ves
sels carrying (he supplies must not
he molested, was first uunouueed in
Heme.
M.INEOLA, N. V., Mny H.-One
Americnn nrmy aviator cadet was
killed nnd two others were injured
iti n collision between airplanes above
Central I'nrk, Lung Inland, this af
ternoon. The student who was killed
was John K. Krwin of Mublrow, Miss.
POLITICAL PLOT
YANKEE FLIERS '
GIVE BATTLE TO
A
Captain Hail Missing as Result of
Flight In Spiral Flew First
American Airplane Insignia De
spite Bad Weather Air Contests
Are Frequent.
NKW YOllls, .Mny 8. .Joseph V.
IliithcrJ'onl, successor to "I'nstor"
Kil.Nscll, ns bead ol' the International
Hiblo Students Association nod 1'ivu
other lenders of nrtfiiniziitinns found
ed by llussell were arrcsti'd in a raid
by federal authorities on tho hcml
niinrtcrs of the Hililo Students asso
ciation in HnmMyn today.
SEEN BY LONDON
U)NI)ON, May 8. The action of
(ionornl Maurlcei, formor chief di
rector of mllltury operations nt the
war offlco, In impugning the veracity
of ministers of the government, has
created a political situation which is
of vital Importance to the cabinet's
cxistenco, according to the views ex
pressed by several of the morning
newspapers.
Nowspapers which have consistent
ly supported tho proscut administra
tion rally to its sldo and Indicate or
assort openly that Former Premier
Asquith nnd hlH followers are back
of (Jcneral Maurice and that the af
fair is a maneuver to oust tho Idoyd
Uoorgo cabinet, and put in its placo
a cabinet bended by Mr. Asquith, Vis
count (troy and tho Marquis of I.ans
downe. Thursday's debate, llio Dally Tolo
graph thlnliH, will bo tho most se
rious of any tho gonorninent has had
to face, Involving tho question of ItB
conllniianco in power. Tho paper
is convinced that tho ministers acted
ill perfect good faith whnn thoy made
tho HtatementH which (ienoral Muu
rlcn contradicts ' and bollovcs they
merely repeated Information sup
plied by their military advisers.
THE WHALE SLAUGHTER HOUSE
I 1 1
WITH TUB AMKHICAN' ARMY N
FRANCE, Tuesday, May 7 (By tho
Associated Press.) After a thrilling
battlo with enemy airplanes ten. miles
north of Pont-a-Mousson, Captain
James Norman Hall of Colfax, Iowa,
one of the American aviators, mado
a spiral dive for earth and was last
seen close to the ground apparently
trying to land. Ills subsequent fate
Is unknown. '
Captain Hall with two others, -was
patrolling this morning between St.
M thiol and Pont-a-Mousson. When
thoy wcro over PagnV-Sur-Mosolle
four enemy Albatross airplanes paint
ed with black and white stripes were
soon. '
The Americans attacked, Captain
Hall singling out ono of the enomy
and driving him down with fire from
his machine gun. Tho captain made
a spiral dlvo frni six thousand me
ters to two thousand, while the Gor
man suddonly revorsod his machine
and started to rlso.
Dived for tlio Kaith,
In a quick turn ho poured a deadly
stroam of machine gun bullets Into
tho bottom of Hall's machine. ' Cap
tain Hall promptly camo off of the
spiral and mado a dlvd for the earth.
Ho was lest sooa atomptinn; to com
plete tho maneuvor.
In tho meantime tho onemy ma
chines that tho other Americans hnd
oiigagod dropped toward tho ground.
It is unknown whut ihnppened to
them, but two of them appeared to bo
In distress. No credit for a victory
Is given tho Americans, because of
ficial verification of tho destruction
of tho enemy was Impossible.
ed upon Its sldo tho first American
airplane Insignia to nppoar on tho
battlo lino. It was In the form of a
"hut In Ihn rltitr" altrn nlinwlntr n.
starry striped hat usually pictured
on Undo Sam, surrounded by a gold
en ring.
Despite the bad weather Cnrman'
machines wcro out In forco. Alarm
aftor alarm was answered by tho
Americans. l ieutenant Cunningham
engaged ono machlno whon fivo mnro
of tho enemy joined In. Tho lieu
tenant kept up tho fight until h's
machine gun Jammed, when ho re
turned to tho American linos with
ton 'bullet holes In his plane.
('no Nfctiport Machines.
Tho iiHiint German gnmo was to
ha.'i a small nunthcr of planes ap
pear near tho American Hues whllo
a rosorvo of four or flvo macblnca
remained out of sight until tho Amor
leans camo Into action. Tho roaorvos
would than swoop down In nn attempt
to wlpo out tho AinoVicuns. Tho
American aviators met this by
answering alarms with twice tho
number of machines It was reported
tho Germans had.
American aviators used Nleuport
pursuit machines as their flghtlnK
weapons. Tho Amorli ans ongaged In
photography and artillery regulating
(Contlnuod on Page Six.)
Wliajo meat ha become almost common, nt leant In many roant cltbn, Ibin the war. This pbturo tdiotv,. ono o ftlio (Treat "butchor
rtios" where tfiejr cut J fflwlo steak to He!- (rt lit t tt cvgtf 'vund, deluding vg hwi tM Jou Wfrm Mm "hunting ground."
NO CREDIT GIVEN
FOR VOLUNTEERS
WASHINGTON', jr.iy 8. The war
depiirtiuent's oli.jeelion to giving
credit in the draft for volunteers t'ur
nihhed by states was endorsed today
by President Wilson. In a lcttc to
Chairman Dent of the houso military
committee, the president asked rlim
ii.ation f I cup the draft hill of tho
liou.se amendment which provides
that credit bo given,
Mr. Dent announced thnt in viow
of (be president's position ho would
osk the houso to recede from thq
umendincnt, probably tomorrow,