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Unl erslty b( Oregon Library WEATHEU Maximum Ycstcrdav. 79; .Miiiinmni 'IVdav 41. FOWL'X'AST Tonight and Tomorrow: Fair. Medford nn- EAT CORN . IL TRIBUNE Forty-eighth Tear. Daily Thirteenth Year. MEDFORD, ORKOOX, FJJ1HAY, JUJAr 12, IMS NO. 94. ALLIE FOOD .'WIX,VIN S SEIZE AUSTRIANS LOSE HERTLING SAYS QUANTITIES OF HUNS ANXIOUS WAR MATERIALS ! Allies Continue Thrusts Along Scat tered Sections, Gaining Ground and Prisoners Raids and Scouting Ex peditions, Though Continued Pres sure Theatening Salient of Enemy. IfOMK, July 12. ( l!y the A socinted Cross. )- "Austria about to crumble away," is the opinion of political anil military observers here lifter tin; ptilili eiitiitll ol' the latest reports I'rom Alluiia and I In1 litilbins where the entente allies have sueceecl- ed in perfect injr a sinjile front, extending from the Adriatic sea to Saloniki. in the Aegean Sea, n distance of some 'J00 miles. WASHINGTON, July 12. Ocep pation of Berat jiml the capture of quantities of war materials and many prisoners by the ndvuncine, Italian army in Alhania were an nounced today in an official dispatch from Home. The message also told of losses in flicted upon the Austrian in sur prise iittacks at f'oncn laiKhi and in Vul D'Assn and the repulse of the enemy attacks on the southern slones of Kasso liossa. Had weather was reported in the Allipiano of AsiaRo. Austrian forces in eastern Alhania continue under pressure. In the Tomoricn valley the enemy is fleeinsr northward hefore the French who have reached the valley from the east ami occupied several villages. Italian troops on the west have occupied the"counnandin!; peak of filumaka, capturing 2."0 prisoners. Tliis height commands the district be tween Herat and the Toniorica. French Strike Agnln I'AKIS, July 12. The village of I.oiiMpont, on the Suvieres river, east of Villers-Cotlerets, has been cap tured by the French, says the ofti eial statement from the war office today. The French also continued their progress north of (.'hnviuny farm anil east of Faverolles. Javase farm, northeast of Faverolles, also was oc cupied. In raids north of Montdidier and in ( hampanc the French captured l.'i prisoners. Urillsli Also I Susy I.OXDOX, July 12 Further raid ing operations were carried out by Hritish troons lust niiiht. notablv in. the Flanders area, near dims amfl Metcrcn, the war office announced today. Prisoner were taken in a patrol encounter in the Keminel sec tor on this front. Another Hritish parly raided the fieriunn lines near llamel, south of the Somme. A patrol clash in the neighborhood of Havrclle, northeast of Arms, also resulted in the taking of prisoners. In their operation in the vicinity of Morris the Hritish took 120 prison- I'ctuin Haps Kncmy IIYTI1K ASSOCIATF.l) PliKSS, (Continued on Page Six.) SEATTLE mm SFATTLK-Jtdy 12. Six cent enr fare tor Seattle was believed In be almost certain to follow conferences between the city traction company officials mifl employes ol street rui' way lint1" which begun in the office of Mayor Olc Hanson this mornin ing. "In any event," said Mayor Hanson after two hours of conference, ,t!i" fare will not exceed six cents." TOiTALK PEACE Chancellor Tells Reichstag That Clos est Union Prevails Between Politi cal Parties aw? Military Regarding Willingness to Receive Proposals Until Then Wilt Fight. LONDON, July 12. There is the closest union between the political parlies of Oermuny and German army headquarters regarding their readi ness to receive peace proposals from the allies If they are offered In a spirit of sincerity. This statement was made In ilie reichstaK by Imper ial Chancellor von llertling, says an Bxchange Telegraph dispatch, from Copenhagen. The program of Germany's foreign policy, the chancellor added, was laid down in Germany's reply to the papal peace note. That would be a righ teous peace and Germany has not and will not change her policy. The recent utterances of President Wilson and Foreign Secretary Hal four, he continued, forced Germany to continue the struggle. Admiral von Hlntze, the new Gor man foreign secretary in succession to von Kuehlmann, made a binding declaration to Count von Hcrtllng that ho was willing in every way to follow the Imperial chancellor's pol icy. Chancellor von Hertling told the reichstag main committee that the government intended vigorously to prosecute the reforms already begun. He commented on the problems in the east and in the west and con cluded with remarks on the govern ment's future program regarding the declaration made In 'Xwvemlier, 111 17, which, had been accepted by a large majority In the rpichstag. The change In the- foreign ministry, the chancellor said, was not caused by any real differences of opinion, but arose out of personal discussions re vealing matters which should not be; made public. ' j GKNKVA, July 12. Another cam paign has been undertaken iilmr the Rhine in order to prevent allied hniu hardment of Rhine town-.. The Ljiri'ltau' of 11k- Muey of lin den has been ticked to request the grand n't icy to exercise its inlluenee with the imperial authorities to come to an arrangement with the belliger ents to abandon (lie aerial bombard incuts of town.-, outride (he .one ol' military operations. In commenting on Ibis new cam paign the Lausanne Gazette declares (hat the (icruians have bombarded London and Parts from the air ninny more (hail a hundred times while the allies during the three years for va rious reasons were unable l reply, did not whine. Now the German:-, it adds, after only a few montls id bombardment of tl'eir open towns, are eryinir Kamarnd." PARIS, July 12. - General Meritte Ireland, chief surgeon of (lie Amer ican expeditionary forces in r'rnnee, is cleaned in an inwMiynlioli of the methods employed in handling and (reatini; the wounedd in the recent battles in which American troops were rimu'jl J. General Ireland ha detailed sev eral of tin' leading surgeons troni the reLMilar medical corp and the medi cal reserve corp to vi-it the hospitals and confer Willi (he medical oltner on the -llbjeet. HARVESTING A CROP An American patrol near (liatcau Thierry noi"K out to lirhifc in h hatch of (icriuan "kultur" tlu'y brought with them. Dainin was riKlit! l V ' I"' A '' - ' Si. ' n 11111. m, :7'ie!3i2i sTdJ&fe ' - HUNS CAPTURE" 'iijfFalMO FIVE AMERICAN LI WASHINGTON, Julv 12. l-'iw American airplane-: which wen on a homhini; expedition have failed to iv larn. (Jeneral Pershing's eomm ani line reported today. Jierlin reported five American airplanes in Gi naaii hands yesterday. Geneial Pershing's eotmnunlipic was the first announcement hoin Ameriean sources n the lo-.s of the machines. II a ve no detail-, bat yesterday's report from Perlin, i.'iich came by way of London, deelarcd that the five machine, were part a sipiadrou.of six which started out to bomb Cohlenz. The crews of the airplanes, the German report said, were taken prisoners. The eoiiininniipie follows; l leadipiarlci's Amctf iean c.pe!i tionary forces, July H, HUH. "Secliun A.--In the Noshes a raid attempted by the enetnv broke down with losses before our lines had been reached. The day passed quietly at other points. "As the result of a bombing expe dition last cvenin-: five of oar ina ehines are itiissjn.'' LESS BUT GO 10 SHOWS WASHINGTON, Jly 12. --The Amerienn people are spending more for amusement but less- tor ( raved as the war progresses. That lurt i revealed by (he .Mny reeeipts of taxes collected by the internal revenue bu reau, made piddle loi!av. War taxes from all soirees eolrclcd in May amounted (o .12:J.:Mm;,H--1. Taxc- coleeteil during .May bv (he l'l per cent cbiire on admissions to tlienters, eoheerls, e,ib,(tts i.ud like places amounti d to 1,.V2 I,!!m;. In February taxes tioni tbe.-e sotne sources totalled jfit.fH.lMHI, The ei'jht per cent tax n p;i-sen-ivr fares durniL' May Yielded -r.!.72'l,-'tjti. Dt.rinc! Kebruary (be -ainc tax rai-cil lor (he Jrea-orv, I, Kl."! 2tt(l. PEASANT BANDS BILL FIXING PRICE PARIS, July 12. M. Tchernoff, a lender of the Russian social revolu tionists, is marching on Moscow at tho head of numerous bands of un united peasants, says a dispatch from Stockholm to the Matin. Part of hi Torce has arrived in the outskirts of the ItolHhevIk capital. A dispatch received In Paris on July 9. renorted that M. Tchernoff 'and three other mcmiiers of the Ker- ensky cabinet had been arrested in Moscow as leaders of a revolt against the Itolslievikl. LONDON, July 12 One of the murderers of Count von Mirbach, German ambassador to Russia, was arrested Thursday, according to a Moscow dispatch to the Frankfurter Zeitung which is transmitted from Copenhagen by tho Kxchunge Tele graph company. LONDON, July 12. Owing to thoj grave shortage in food, cholera Is on ' the Increase In Petrograd and hun-j dreds of persons aro dally falling vie- ( tlms -to it, says a Russian winder, dispatch received today. t I PARIS, July 12. Olavas Agency) (iiHslan railway men nre on titrike In several district, according to a Zur ich dispatch unoting tho Leipzig Neitpsto Nachi iebfen. The strike threatens to heroine general, tho newspaper reports. 15 CARS OF FfiOIT Tho liouue River Fruit & Produce association today confirmed tin; Mile of fifteen cars of Howell, Hose find Winter Net is pears nt price on all varieiicK well above la 'l year's market. OF HUNS of prisoners. Itclow, some types OF WHEAT $2.40 V A SIM NO TO N, July 1 2 . P rest -dont Wilson today vetoed the annual agricultural appropriation bill con taining an amendment increasing the price of wheat to $2.40 per bushel. Members of congress from wheat growing states will make n fight to pass the bill over tho veto, but indi cations are that the wheat price pro vision will be eliminated. The president's message said the Increase in the price of wheat would add $2 to (he cost of a barrel of flour, and would add $'1X7,000,000 to the price of tho 000, 000,000 bushel crop of 1!MS wheat. It also would can ho a corresponding In crease in the price of Canadian wheal, (he messiige said, and would add very materially to tho general high cost oT living. An agreement was tentatively reached (oday by senate leaders for postponement of prohibition legisla tion until August 20, for a vote late todny or tomorrow on (ho adminis tration wire control resolution and for supetiKlon of senate business until August 1 0 under a "gentle men's agreement" for three day re censes. ROILY ASKS FOR SENATE INQUIRY NKW YORK, July 12. Dr. Kdwar l A. Kumely, former publi-her of tie, Kvciiinu Mail, iiires(e( on cliart;es n perjury in connection with the ipies ( it mi ol (MMietbtp ol the paper, which the govertt'iicnt alleues was boti'Mii in the interest of (lie German eowrn n. cat, aniiouiui'd today that if (lie sctijite would Inuke an invcsti'Mtioi1 m(o (he affairs of the newspaper h. would uaie iniintinily mid phice all the tacts in po-e.s.-inii of the ierii- tliellt. Semitor William II. iu of I't.ib plfinsed u senatorial impiiiy into the Ku'lini',' Mail case. 1 " " ' iDUAL EMPIRE 120,000 ON LIST mni CAWIMPO IUU! OHYIilUO OF EMIGRANTS How Austro-Hunyarian Government Got Control of Savings of Citizens . In America Through Trans-Atlantic Trust Company Explained By Alien Property Custodian. XHVV YORK. 3nly 12. How llio Auslro-HiiiiRiirliin government Rot control of the savings of Its emi grants to this country thru tho trans Atlantic trust company, now seized by tho government,, wus told today liy Francis P. Garvin. Investigator for tho alien property custodian. The emigrants, upon their arrival in New York, ho stuted, wero mat at tho plurB hy an agent of the hank who directed them to hoarding houses, the keepers of which were roprosontntlvcs of tho Trans-Atlantic institution. Kvon the services of clergymen wero utilized to impress AuBtroHungarlans with the impor tance of placing all their funds with the establishment whose controlling hand reached from Vlonna. Sccui'tvl Millions Millions of dollars worth of Aus-tro-Hungarlan nnd Gorman war bonds wore Bold to thoso emigrants and to others who hnd become Amer ican citizens. On tho day federal au thorities soleed the hank It hnd 14,-' 000 depositors nnd (10,000 customers, loeuted thruout the country, lis de posits totalled $7,000,000. Slnco.lt organization it had sent a total of 1S2,000,000 kronen, (I72.S00.000) to Austria-Hungary. When war was declared to exist between tho I'nlled Statos and tho dual monarchy, the hank Invited depositors to pliu-o re mittances with It "for transmission nftcr tho wur," and a big business was dono In this branch. ('iikor Is Ouincil llorrls Cukor, an American citizen who was one of tho directors of tho Trnns-Atlnntlc Trust compuny, seiz ed by Die alien property custodian yesterday, was removed as a director of that Institution because of Ills al leged pro-Oerman and pro-Austrian sympathies, Cukor only a week ago was ap pointed president of tho municipal civil service, commission by .Mayor Dylan. SOCIETY OF NATDNS PARIS, duly Gerumnv In- excluded herself from the society ol nations and -will remain outside of ' a lony; as she in embarrassed by mil itarism, says Andre l.cbey, who is wnlmn a report on u leauiie of nn (ions for the foreign ulTnirn eommr. Ico of the chamber of deputies. In a statement to the Petit Purisien, Deputy Lcbey adds: "The allies have organized at Ver sailles an iulcr-nllied war council, why should lltev not organize (here an inter-allicd committee to study (he idea of a league of nations f The two actions are parallel and coinnli menlary. Why not seize on (be oc casion of the aimiversar- ftf duly 11 lo create it '' WASHINGTON, July 12. An Amerlcan naval hiunch, after nldliiK a Krent li deHlroyer In towlnj; n iIIh ubled American Hcnrdann lo mifety wiiK mink by German shore hnticricx, Inning two of her crew nro'ialdy drowned nnd two taken nrbtonor by (ho enemy. AMHltttatit Surgeon Albert Steven?, jiatnl rcnerveft, New York, and I'htllp Goldman, nuurtcrniaslcr. Sew York, landed In front of the German bat teries umi wore lapluted. mum GERMAN BONDS Eighteen Million Dollars Estimated Collected By Bernstorff From German-Americans and Used for Prop aganda Work In America Instead of Purchasing War Supplies. WASHINGTON, July 12. A fairly eompli'le list of (lie holders of Ger man government bonds in the I'nitcd Slates is in (he hands of service men fiuhtiii! German propaganda, it wa said today by officials, discussing the disclosure of the lar-jo holding of (he Husch family made yesterday by Alfred L. Iletdicr, New York assist ant attorney general. Names of nearly "20,000 individunls are on the list, which has been built up during the course of secret inves tigations made duriur the last two years. The securities were issued in denominations of us small us . Six Issues Made Approximately six different issueV of the bonds wen? Hindu in the United Slates in order to evade the Knglish blockade. They were underwritten by various hanking bouses nnd Hyndi cules, (he trans-Atlantic Trust com pany, of. which were secured yester day for internment, being un judivo ugent. , i; ,j.r.. TIT amount secured through bond sales is known to have lieen large though probably below the $18,000, 000 figure intimalcd by Mr. Meeker. Trull of Propaganda NKW VOliK, July PJ.The trail of German propaganda financed in America by money raised in this country through the sale of German war bonds is long and unexplored by the Ameriean investigators, it was learned aulhuritalivcly here today. Count Von Ilernstorff and Mr. Ilcinrtch Albert, who was German commercial nllaelio in the I'niled Slates were given carle blanche hy the German government, according to evidence uncovered by the Xew York slate altornuv general's office. The purchase of control of newspaper columns is said to be only one phaso of the inquiry. Accounts In 10 Hanks Count Von Mernstorff nnd Mr. Al bert bad accounts in HI New York hanks. The total of these deposits has not yet been learned. The reason it was said, was because of the suc cessful methods of concealment, pur sued by Von Mernstortf nnd Albert, through a system of drawing only cashier's checks in transferring ac counts nnd making payments. These transferrals were lreiiicullv made over niuht as further means of cam ouflage. Kvidenee indicated further, it was said, that la rye sums were sent to South America for propngandu work in l.atin-American countries. This pluise of the inipiiry has as yet been only liltle developed. WASH INGTON, July 1 2. Ger many'a plan to establish on the Kb I no between Ilaslo nnd SlrattburK a BcrleH of dums which would Inter fen witb the free waterway between Switzerland and the hcu Is cunning much adverno common! among tho SwIhu. A dispatch from lterno today ways tho federnl council has been called upon to open diplomatic nego tiatloiiH with tho German govern ment In order to prevent tho work. BILL TO TAX FACTORIES EMPLOYING CHILDREN WASHINGTON, July SVnn tor l.enrntii today inlroducedu hill proposing an additional live per cent excise t;tx on the net profits of mine-i, ipiarnes, canneries (u lactones em plovini ehildn n under II years of ace.