Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, May 14, 1918, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textr e.-w.V'.iii --V. .V.; ii,-vri Ur.t erslty of Oregon X Library .. . i X , WEATHER Maximum Yesterday, G2; Minimum Today, 38. FORECAST Tonight and Tomorrow: "Showers an d Colder. JACKSON COUNTY 111 C C . BAROMETER IV. J J. Quota for 1918, "$693,000.00 Sales to May 10, $09,493.70 Buy Thrift Stamps gAAc'y. il Tribune Save and Buy lor ViGtory Buy W.S.S. Thrift Stamps wIJid'8 Safest Investment Forty-el prhth Tear. Daily Thirteenth Tear. MEDFORD, OREGON, TUKSDAY, MAY II, 1918 NO. 41 GERMANY DEMAND MEDFORD MA KAISER ORDERS ARTILLERY FIRE . ? . MILLION RIFLES BENNETT DEAD RUSSIAN ARMY VIOLENT ALONG i Mm FROM KRUPP TO AT RIVERIA HOWIE DISORGANIZED BATTLE LINE MJ GERMANIZE U.S. AT AGE OF 72 Germany Demands Financial Consid- eration, Surrender of Large Cities and Dissolving of Army Units From ' Russia ' Lithuanians Ordered to '. Fight for the Kaiser Against Foe. WASIIIXGTOX, May 14. Dctiiils ot the latest German demands on Rus sia, received at the state department today from Swedish sources, show that Russia has been asked to make financial concessions, to give up Mos cow and other large cities to the Gcr- mnns. to cease arming troos and to dissolve all recently formed military units. , ... Fighting In Moscow. MOSCOW, Sunday, Muy 12. (By th Associated Press.) Fighting be gan last night in the center ot the city between Bolshevik troops and anarchists. - ThAsoviet troops sur rounded the anarchist heudipiarters, over which a black flag was flying, and fired on the flag. The anar chists replied with grenades and ma chine guns. Similar fights occurred in other streets. One of the groups, known as "the anarchist federalists," who were using bombs, showed the white flag after a halt' hour's fighting. At noon today fighting was still in progress. F.nsluvo Lithuanians. AMSTERDAM, May 14. Emperor William has Issued a proclamation concerning Lithuania, In which he says it is assumed Lithuania will participate in tho war burdens of Germany. In the proclamation the "independ ence" ot Lithuania, allied with the German empire, Is recoglnzcd. i "We assume that the conventions to be concluded," the proclamation says further, "will take the Inter ests of the German empire into ac count equally with those ot Lithu ania and that Lithuania will partici pate In the war burdens of Germany which secured her liberation." Exploiting Coiinlrlrfi i Lithuania is one of the former Russian border states which the Ger mans have attempted to set up as nominally independent countries un dor German influence. Germany is making every effort to exploit the Hates economically, but, except in the case of Poland, has not attempted to force the former Kussian subjects to fight with the German army, as the emperor's announcement inri c.ites may now be done in Lithuania. The attempt to enroll a Polish army on tho same plan that Is now made In the case of Lithuania was a failure. The Vorwaerts of Berlin said re cently that strong opposlton was de veloping among the Llthuanians.tr transforming their country into a Gorman "semi-federal" state. Entire Independence Is demanded. The Lithuanians number about two mil lion and are found mainly In the for mer Russian governments of Kovno. Vllna, Grodno and Suwalkl. POLICY OF "MOST LONDON", May 14. Andrew Donar Law, chancellor ot the exchequer, made an Important announcement In the house ot commons Monday, the Times says, when In reply to a ques tion by Sir Edward Carson be said the British government intended to adopt a policy similar to that of tho French government In denounc ing all commercial conventions con taining a clause regarding "most fa vored nations." Such a step, the Times declared will leare Great Britain free in mat frs of fiscal policy. Germany Taking Plenty of Time Con- ?"PfV J i I i v i ? rSZ centrating Troops for Renewal of . j Wi t 't Smash Only Activity Shown By J . ' IMI StJ Biig Guns and Battles .n Air.- sAViShl vA A,lies Make Raid8, TOAlW WITH THE FliENTH ARMY IX FRANCE, May 14. (By tho Asso ciated Press.) The Germans arc pre paring most methodically for resump tion of their of tensive. Signs seem to show Hint they will attack between La Bnssec and the front south of Amiens, but it is olso probable they will cxecutei secondary operations simultaneously in Flanders, between Montdidier mid Noyon and possibly on other parts of t lie front, with the hope of attracting allied reserves uwuv from the. center. It is regarded as possible that these lesser assaults will he delivered before (he principal utlnck. ' Whenever the Germans decide to engage in buttle, however, Ihey will find facing them French, British and American troops ready lo meet the shock, ill whatever strength it may he delivered. LONDON', May 14. German nrtil lery fire was. violent lust night in the Sommc and Ancro sectors, says the officinl statement from Field Mar siiul liuig today. The statement follows: "We carried out a successful raid last night northeast of Robecn, (Flan dci-s) and captured a few prisoners without casualties to ourselves. A pnrtv of the enemy attacked one of our posts west of Merville, but was repulsed with loss. "The hostile artillery was active during the night ill the Sommc and Ancre sectors." I French Official Itcport. UARIS, May 14. Heavy artillery fighting in the Champagne is reported in today's official statement. Only patrol actions occurred on (lie main buttlcfront in I'icardy. 'flic announcement follows : "French patrols curried out opera tions north of ilangard (tin the front before Amiens) near Courey, and west of the Meuso, bringing back pris oners. "We easily repulsed a German raid on stmil French posts northwest of Orvillers Sorel. "The artillery fighting was rulher spirited in Hie Chaiiipugne near Butlc l)u Mcsnil and in the Vosgcs. A Ger man local attack north of La Feciit was repulsed by our fire. "There is nothing to report else where." Huns Taking Time. 15V ASSOCIATKO PRESS, Mav 14. Cmiuiiitted as they are to n eon tiniiation of heavy on the western front, the Hermans apparent- Iv are takm-r their full tunc hefore heinnin: another operation. In two weeks the enemy has marie only one determined attaek and this was re pulsed Hoiithwest of Yyres. Ahuii; the vital sectors of the sal ients driven hy the (lemians ssinee March J1, the enemy artillery has heen active, but there are no signs of renewed infantry activity in strength. (ierman hiir guns are hurlin? thori miiiiIs of shells intolhe allied po sitions. f.OMHN May 14. Uolshevik troops have enet rited more than ") miles Muth into Mongolia from the Siberian border below Irkutsk, says a (ii-pateh tiled on April 11 by the Paily Mail's -correspondent at Tien Tsin. The Mongolians were unable to resist the llokheww, who eonfieateri goods belonging to weall by Chinese tnrrehnnts. The Chinese cabinet is to stop the inrndrrs TliLs news pk'tiiro shows a lo aro pamiiiff under n trhimplial arch front. TO BEAT U-BOATS WASHINGTON, My I I. The first million tons of ships completed and delivered to tho United Slates gov ernment under tho direction of the shipping board bavo tieen put on the Tilgh seas to help defeat Germany. A total ot 159 vessels to 1,1 OS, Oil tons was completed up to May 11, statistics of the shipping board show. Since January first more than half of tho total tonnage, 007,890, has been delivered and tho monthly to tals have shown a steady Increase Most of the ships delivered were requisitioned on the ways or In con tract form .when tho United States entered tho war. Virtually all are of steel construction None of tho ships of tlio great wood program lias been dolivcred, altho 40 have been launched, duo to delay In obtaining boilers and other machinery. The first completed wood ship built on contract for tho government now is undergoing speed trials off tho Pa cific coast. Deliveries of ships made last week wero niado at Kcattle, Spar rows Point, Aid., Chicago, Ecorse, Mich.; Gloucester, X. J.; Wilmington, Del., and New York. WASHINGTON, Mav II. Kiu-ht steel ships totalling IH.l'jf) tons were completed during the seven days end ing May II. Koiirlcen Yelets were launched with a total tonnage of o7. of which Mfven were leel witii u total capacity of :t'J.l)U tons, The sleel deliveries included one refrigerator ship, two tankers and five cargo vessel. The state of Maine during the week fumed out its firM wooden ship for the L'ovenitiient, ibe A mini a ;t,."tOt( ton ve--e built at Portland, n lino of fully-eqiilpiwl Kaniniios o ot wolcomo erected, Ity lronch sohlitrH, U. S. BATTLESHIPS IN GRAND FLEET MINIMIS", Ma 14. -American na val aid has been of the greatest help to the Hritish fleet, says Archibald Kurd, the naval expert, writing in the Haily Telegraph on the new situation in the North Sea resulting iron, the Zeebrugge and (Mend raids, the ex tension of lritih mine fields and the generally increasing naval pressure against (lermany. "When the war is over,' he says, "the nation will form some concep tion of the extent of the debt we owe the American navy for the manlier in which it has co-operated, not only in eonnection with the ennvoys system, but in figlitinir the submarines. "If the naval position is improving todav, as it is, it is due lo the fact that the I'.rili-li and .American Hect are working in closest aeoerri, sup ported bv an immense boriv of skill ed workers on both shies of Ibe At lantic who arc turning out destroyers and other craft, for dealing with the submarines, as well as mines and bombs. "Tin (icrmai:s can have a battle whenever ihev waul it. The streiuMli of Ibe grand fleet ha been -1 1 main tained. Son t' the linc-l battle ships, of the I ititcd Slates navy arc now assneialcd witb il. They are no! only splendid liulitinir ships, but they are well officered and maimed. "If Admiral lically were asked hU opinion there U no doubt of what he would say of the value -of the uid which the I nili'd Stales has given in Ibis reaped. The eonriil ions under whieb the Germans would cnu.'ii'e us, therefore, are c-s favorable to thera Ihan two vears ayo." SALEM. Ore, "Mav 14. After ("I lowing all in.Hit in the wake of a lu--.'itive believed lo be .1.-11' Baldwin. Un convict, ulio escaped from the state penitentiary in broad dayliirbt Sun day, Warden Murphy and n pos-ee of uuards lo.Iay tan down (iitsie Cold, a patient from tin- slate ho-pital lor the insane, vim reeenlly escaped, (old was found near Marion, south of here, and his capture had a iliscnn cirting cited on the enrehers for Baldwin, wlio now believe (iold to be the man s,.(.a ,y fnrmers jni, misLik-i-ii for Hie i-oiniri. n tht-li' wy lo tho tiotuiH's, Tlioy back a triiort (UHtamo from-Uic AM ST KRDA.M, May II. Austrian newspapers pablisli reiorl.s said lo have cinuimtcd from an aullioi-iiativo source lo the effect lliat Ibe confer ence between Kmpcror William and Emperor Charles nt German great licailipiarti-r..: hr-t mmilh, intended to strciiL'lhi'ii I he old alliaiii-e which was concluded as a defensive measure against liu-ia and to which uddci! weighl was given by ihc devclopincnts ol the war. LONDON. u.My I I. Tin; Hireling o Kiiiiieror Cliarlcs and Emperor Wil ham at (ierman great hcailiiiai'lels lias uroiiM'd deep speculation win the official account of llic conference hus dune little lo sajisl'v. There is an inclination, however, to lake it for urnnleil 1 1 : 1 1 Ihc meeting resulted giving (iei-aianv a firmer grip on Austria-Hungary ami tile dual mon archy's inlei-mil ami external poliei, :;; ir fact thai from now on An-driii-lliingary will In; little more l hall a German colony. Empi mr Cliaries is pjeturcd as ilo- lllu penance lor Ins peace li'llers lo r ranee and proini -1 1 1 ir not lo olleml a'am. Emiei-nr William and hi mililary aii--ers are mtii as liavimr aeiM-pled tlli- proli;l-e at its faec Val- i-e, hut a ; taken ia the way of secur ity for its full illiuenl more active con 1 1 ill of Austrian affairs. ' PRUSSIANS REJECT L AMST l.lihA.M, May 1 I. - Tim I'ru--ian lower house ha rejected a notion to retoie the provision for (Miial snfl'raL'c in tile I'nisian frali . liise reform lull. The motion was re jected by a vote of 'Jild to H.". Il wan on paragraph three id' the bill. Paragraph Ihree was Ihc most itn porlant part of the franchise reform measure, providing for one vote for each man in I'russta, thus prohibiting plural v ol in.', as well as giving uui-vcr-al male suffrage. This pmnuraph was delected from lin mea-nre in intniitiMee a fortne'ht xgo. ROYAL CONFAB TIGHTENS GERMAN i HOLD ON AUSTRIA 450,000 Mausers, Quarter Billion Car fridges, Million Rifles, 600 Machine Guns Said to Be Stored in 40 Dif ferent Places by German Interests for Uprising. NEW YORK, May 14. Report: that thousands of rifles hud been se crctly iiuHirtcd from the Krupp works at Essen in order to "Germanize" the i nili-d States wen' related today ul an iniiuirv conuuclcil hy Maio Aiior- ncy General Lewis into rumors of hoardipg of arms by German interests the I'nilcd States. Edear Holmes, a witness, credited the reports to a man named .lames II Crosslev. Holmes, as a broker, Iricd to buv the rifles, lie said. During Ihc negotiations, he said, Crossley told him that s c 1,(11111.110(1 rifles hud been imparled from Essen, via Hie Ilobokeu docks of two German steam ship companies nnd were to lie used in Ihc 1'nilcil Stales il the Germans re successful in reaching the Eng lish channel ports. Offcrod to Sell Guns. Mr. Holmes identified a copy of a letter written by himself offering to sell one million Mausers and one mil lion cnrlridges. The letter was ad dressed to I loelor Thonlns Darlington of New York, former health eouimis sinner. Holmes testified lie hud never seen Ihc articles, lint talked willi an en-1 ginecr named Francis L. .ludil, who said he hud seen boxes conlainiug 2HII.IIIKI rillcs. T.uii moulhs ago, Holmes said, the I'nitcd Slides tried to buy them, hill Ihey were not pro duced. Holmes hud been in touch with United Slalcs officials through out the negotiiitions, he said. Gustavo Lussing was named hy Holmes as the man who was said iiy various intermediaries to he able to deliver the goods. ,ludd told Holmes the rillcs hud been in tin Eastsidc warehouse in New York and had been removed, bill were within au auloaio hilo ride of pn hour and a half from Broadway. Million Itllles Here. Charles II. Murray,- u hotel owner of Wushillglon, I). ('., testified he had heard of the existence of Ibe rillcs through ii Russian agent, Ivan Nor odny, who claimed they had been I'hiimeil by an ijpslalc New York firm and thai lie hud shol one of them himself. Noriiiluv said Lussing had a farm at Woodbury Fulls and Hint a. parly of German officers, includ ing Caplain Hans 'I'auscber, had vis ited it al'lcr dining at Ihc German club in New York. Through Norodnv, Murray met Lussing. and wus shown an ileniieil statement of Ihc number of rillcs hidden T I.ONIHlN. Mav ! I. The total ol'l lllltisb ca-llllllles lepolle.l in Hie week cuilini' lo'lay was II.IU'J. They are divided as follow-: Killed or died of wounds: Olliccrs. .'ilil ; men, .1,H(i."i. Wounded or iiiis-iti'.' : Officers 2, lj:i; men. :i:i.l)'.l. Reporls of llrili-h cu-nuliic usual ly are not available tor some time after Ibe actions in which ihey arc sustained. The large total in the last week evidently reprc-ctits losses suf fered when the fighting in .Flanders and I'ienrdv was at its height. Com plete records have not I n given out but it is probable that the disunities reported in the last week lire the heaviest llritish losses of anv week of the war. Tin- total last week was :is,iifii. James Gordon Bennett, Proprietor of New York Herald, Passes Away Sent Stanley to Africa Started Only American Paper In Europe Ran Business From Abroad. liEAVLIliU, Franco, May 14. dames Gordon Ilennott, proprietor ot the New York lloruld, died at 5:30 o'clock this morning after having been unconscious two days. Mr. Hennott's last words before re lapsing into unconsciousness were ro tation to his newspaper interests. Mrs. Dennett was with her husband when ho died. Dispatches from Franco early this ; Jnontli reported Mr Iionnott so seri ously 111 that bis condition was giving cause for anxiety. Ho had beon for some months lit his villa at Hoaolleu, In tho Jllvorla, after an Illness and . advices from Nlco at that time an nounced that ho had bad a rolapae. Itun Paper From Kuropo. Sovoral thousand miles away from ; his main nuwspapor office, James , Gordon Uonnutt directed Jn mlnuto , dotall tho arfalrs of the New York ; Horald and maintained for taimBelf ono ot tho moBt commanding posl-r tlons In American Journalism. For 30 years ho lived In Paris and worked simultaneously 'hero and In INew York. No man bofore hlra or since lias attempted such long distance ed iting, i Eroin almost ovory other angle his position in tho newspaper world bas. ilieen unique. Upon tho death of his father, who was foundor of tho 1 lor- aid, tho younger Ilennott, thon Just ;past 30 yours, Inhorltod tho largest newspaper fortuno accumulated by any Amorlcan publisher up to that dinio. Ho applied It toward aclilove- ments to Btnrtlo the public and thua Lredown to tho credit of his news- japor. In many Instances those achlovenionts beenmo Important Items Liu tho world's history. Sent Hlanley to Africa. -Such wiih tho policy ho Inaugural- ed when managing editor In 1870 ho ordered Henry M. Slnnley Into the heart ot. Africa lo find Livingstone; such when ho sent tho ill-fated Jean otto expedition to discover tho North : polo; such when ho Joined In the . laying of tho commercial cable all typical Instances of enterprise to "mnko news" or further Its truns- : mlsslun. In contrast, lo tho personal Jour- nallsm ot tho elder Ilennott and Gree ley type, tho younger Ilennott was ono of the first to sound tho Impor sonal nolo. llo declared that his paper should becomo a sort of ro- public ot which no man or party" should hold conl rol From tho first ho refused to recognize "celebrities" as compared with "workers" on his staff, and It Is related that oven whin Stanley cumo buck from his triumph lu Africa, young llennclt ro wurilcd Ii I mi with tho mean assign- uient of "covering" the Tendorloln : pollen district In New York. When Mr. Ileuuett moved to Paris In 1SS7 bo started tho Paris edition (Continued on Pugo Two.) I'OIITI.ANl), May 1 1. - The execu tive comiiiilln of the dcmoerulie or ganization in eleven counties of the stale have unanimously passed reso lutions endorsing the candidacy of Will II. lliirnibroiik of Albany fur the position of Democratic nulintiul coin ii'illeeuinn. Four of these endorse ments hnve been made during Hie past week nnd include Wasco, Yamhill, Hood River nnd Washington counties. Thus far, Jr. Morrow of Portland, lias not been endorsed by the county central committee of any county in Ihc stole.