University of Oregon X
Library ( j
WEATHER Maximum Vestcrday, 73; Minimum Today, PrtM-ii.itation, .02. FORECAST Tonight and To morrow: Probably Fair.
Mebforo Mail Tribune
Forty-elKhth Tear.
Daily Thirteenth Tear.
MEDFORD, OREGON', 'SATURDAY, AUG. 17, 1918
XO. 125
ALLIED FORCE
W
TH N
OF
A
ROYE'S FULL
r.
L
French Take Plateau at Outreaches
Givinti Command of Oise River
Local Actions Result in Tightening
Grip of Allies Upon Roye, Bastion
of German Line From Peronne to
Noyon Germans Intensify Artil
lery Defense.
WITH THE FRENCH ARMY IX
FRANCE. Aug. 17. (By Associated
Press). French troops this morning
carried out a local attack in the re
gion of Autreches, about ten miles
northwest of Soissons and captured
the plateau north of Autreches vil
lage. This gives them command of
the region extending northward,
south of the Oise river.
Local actions elsewhere resulted
in the further tightening of the grip
of the allies upon the approaches to
Roye, to the west, the north and the
south. The Germans are intensifying
their artillery fire In that region
with no other effect than to slow up
the allied advanco.
lloyo Menaced
' BY THE ASSOCIATED'-.. PRESS
Aug. 17. Roye, the bastion of the
German Une from Peronne to Noyon
Is menaced seriously by advancing
French, Uritish and Canadian troops
and its fall within the next few hours
appears probable.
' With the town in allied hands, the
southern end of the German line
would have to retire and the northern
end thru Chaulnes to Peronne, also
would be affected. The allies are
now but a scant one and one-quarter
miles west of the town, while they
are pressing eastward in the north
and In the south.
Advanco Along; Front
Along a front uf nearly nine miles
north and, south or the Avro, which
flows thru Roye, the allies have push
ed back the enemy. The most notable
advance was made on a front or
three miles in the center by French
and Canadian troops who now are
fighting on a lino thru Goyencourt,
St. Mard-Les-Trio and Laucourt. St.
Mard Is west of Roye and there are
no villages in the intervening mile
and a quarter.
French troops on the south have
forced their way almost thru the
Loges wood which borders the Koye
Lasslgny road on the west. The
wood is five miles directly south oi
Roye and it would appear that a fur
ther advance might enable the
French to outflank both Roye and
Lasslgny and force the Germans to
readjust their lines eastward toward
Noyon and probably beyond. North
of Goyencourt British forces after
having repulsed an enemy attack on
Damery in which 250 prisoners were
raptured, are pushing eastward with
French units toward Franzart and
Fresnoy-Les-Roye.
Artillery Activity
Artillery activity continues on the
(Continued on Page Six.)
13 HUN ACES
KILLED BY ALLIES
WASHINGTON, Aus. 17. Thir
teen of Germany's leading aviators
have been listed as missing In action
since July 1, according to an official
dispatch from France received here
today. The aviators who have been
thus listed and the number of allied
machines which they were credited
with bringing down are:
Loo Wendhardt, 53; Menshkoff.
.19; Rongartz and Muck lor, 3.1 each;
Hullick. 32; Wnesthoff, 26; Von Tur.
check, 27; Klrchsteiner, 27; Puetter,
2.1; Wlnish, Fredericks and Pipp-
hardt, 21 each and Helnhardt, 20.
PE 1 IN
FEW HLIURS
AUSTRIAN DUKE
TO BE CROWNED
U
Emperor Charles Strikes Bargain
With German Kaiser in Which He
Agrees to Furnish Fresh Troops
for Western Front in Return for
Poland and a Peace Campaign.
THE ILUU'E, Aug, 17. Germany
li:ts approved the suggestion made
by Austria than an Austrian arch
duke be made kin gof Poland, the Lo
knl Anzeiger of Ferlin snvs it under
stands. Archduke Karl Stephens, it
says, probably will be named.
LONDON, Ahs. 17. Germany hna
made concessions to Austria on the
Polish question in consequence of the
strong stand taken by Emperor
Charles and the- Anstro-IIunguriun
government, according to information
received by the correspondent of the
Daily Mail, at The Hague.
Germans (iet Troops , k
It is posisble there was no personal
union of the crowns of Poland and
Austria, but the king of Poland is
certain to be an Austrian archduke,
snvs the correspondent, who adds
that t he conference' at German main
headquarters had the following ha
sis:
The Germans demanded that Aus
tria send to the western front from
10 to l"i divisions of picked troop!
confinm- themselves to the defensive
on the Italian trout.
Emperor Charles and his advisors
made the counter demands that Ger
many make further declarations re-1
gnrding lielgium, guaranteeing evac
uation, restoration and an indemnity,
make n powerful movement in the di
rection of peace and that tile Polish
question he solved in a manner fa
vorable to Austrian wishes.
Peace Offensive
The advisers of the Austrian em
peror, it is declared, emphasized the
opposition 4ft Austrian military and
niiblie opinion to the transfer of
troops to the western front. This op
position could only be quieted if the
government was assured of Polish
support, which could he obtained by
securing- from Germany concessions
oil account of Poluud and if the public
could be shown that the central pow
ers would malic another strong effort
to obtain peace.
WITH TIIK FKEXCII A II MY IN
THE FIELD, Aim. 17. On the high
way lending to Kpernuy, wagons und
ambulances of all the allied armies
were pacing one another in an end
less Kt renin.
An umbulunce was driven by n
young woman in khaki, covered with
dust. The Italian soldiers resting
along the road invariably saluted her
with voice and gesture, and she in
turn smiled sweetly back at them.
She was Italia Garibaldi, niece of
the hero of two worlds. She is at
tached to u line hospital fur ltainu
Alpine troops situated in the neigh
borhood where she was seen. This
bospital at present is filled with sol
diers of all the allied annie-, Ameri
cans included.
localINSFOR
WASHINGTON, Amr. 17. Weath
er predictions for the week beginning
Monduy, issued by the weather bur
eau today, are :
Northern Kocky Mountain and pla
teau regions;
Scattered showers first of week
with temperature about normal.
Pacilie states: Generally fair
weather except local rains in western
Washington and Oregon first of the
week.
K NG OF POLAND
ENTENTE ENVOYS
AT 1 W IN
GREAT DANGER
American Consul Remains to Assist
British and French and Protect
Foreigners Bolshevik! Summarily
Shot 236 Out of 1,030 Suspected of
Revolutionary Tendencies.'
I'AIilS, An-. 17. (Huvas Aj;eii
cy. ) KfHrts tire in circulation in I
Finland that the (icniians have seiz
ed the Russian nnvnl pint uf Kr.m
stadt, Hccordint; to a Stockholm dis
patch to La Matin.
AM STKUDA.M, Aiifr. 17 Out of
1,000 persons arrested at Moscow
and l'clnuirnd because of counteV
revolutionary tendencies, 2'Mi have
been summarily shot, according to
Moscow advices to the Kreit Zeituiifr
of licrlin.
WASHINGTON', Aug. 17 Ameri
can Consul General Poole, at Moscow,
who recently burned his code book
and turned the consulate over to the
Swedish consul, notified the Mate de
partment in a cablegram received to
day that he intended to remain iu
Moscow to assist the Itritish and
French consular officers there, who
are in pre at personal danger.
Itelease of Foreigners
The eoUMil general reported that
with the aid of the Swedish repre
sentative, he had succeeded in se
curing the release of several hundred
entente citizens, chiefly British ami
French, who were arrested by the
Molsheviki and held as liostae.es for
soviet members imprisoned in the
mirth.
About HO of these civilian? wore
slill in custody. Mr. Poole said he
had been able to ameliorate their sit
uation. Mr. Poole also reMrlcd that the
Japanese consul has left Moscow un
der pledge of safe conduct. The Jap
anese representative will make a eoo
plete report of conditions iu Moscow
to the allied nations.
Iteil Cross Working
Members of the Internnlinnul lied
Cross, including several Americans,
are doing excellent work in Mommhv,
the consul general reported, nnd nrc
rcecivinu adequate protection at pres
ent. They are greatly assisted by
members of Hie Y. M. C. A., who ar
also afforded protection.
From Finnish news bureau reports
transmitted through Sweden, the slate
department heard today that the so
viet government is making liastv
preparation to move stale banks and
other state institutions from Moscow.
For ibis reason, it was said, all pri
vate paeni:ers and freight traffic
from Moscowhas been stopped.
FORD TO BUILD
DKTIiOlT, Atur. 17. Plan for the
erection of several tractor plants
were announced today by Henry Ford,
the automobile manuraeturer. Ford
has notited the Mexican government
that he is prepared to spend 1,000,
000 on the tirst of seernl such
plants, and is awaiting only the se
lection of an official site.
"We will sell virtually at cost and
if "rotits aei-uuiiilate we will put them
riy lit back into the business,' said
Mr. Ford. 'NM a cent is to be taken
out of Mexico."
Should the hnsines jjrnw io such
proportions Unit it would be impos
sihle to ah-orb the protils, the Mexi
can government will be pieii con
trol of the plan's, it was said.
"The tractor will give the people an
opportunity to realize some of the
weallh of thrir eoutry," Mr. Foul
added.
S"
TjOKIO. Tuesday, Auk. IS.
(By the Associated I'ress). The
government today Issued a
statement announcing that tin-
tier the agreement with China
in view of the danger threaten-
Ins the border of .Manchuria,
Japan was despatching troops
thence from Manchuria.
LONDON, Friday, Aug. !(. Meas
ured by the number of machines en
framed, the intensity of the fighting
and the losess inflicted on the enemy,
the figbting in the air during the past
week was the most formidable of the
war.
Some of the most severe conflicts
occurred on August 8 iu the sector
between Albeit ami the Amiens-Hove
road. The air fighting resulted in
the destruction of 48 enemy ma
chines while 17 others were driven
down out of control. Filly British
machines did not return.
During; the six succeeding days
18." enemy airplane were destroyed
and 89 driven down out of control,'
making a total of .'Kill German ma
chines for the week, compared to 12'A
British airplanes missing.
British bombing squadrons contin
ual! v attacked military objectives
dropping more than 'X2il tons of
bombs and causing great damage.
Low flying scout machines raked the
enemy's congested roads with ma
chine irun fire, inflicting many cas
ualties. A notable feature of the aerial op
erations was the virtually continuous
night and dav bombing of the enemy
bridges over the Somme. This ij real
ly hampered the supply and rein
forcement of the German troops.
The week's work also included a
number of destructive raids into Ger
mauv. .
PAIilS, Aug. 17. Sen-cant Wil
liam McKcrness of Wallinefonl.
Conn., attached to the Lafayette es-
cadriiic was Killed in a light with
eight encniv airplanes on Thursday,
according lit the Paris edition of the
Tribune. The bodies of McKerness
and his French pilot were picked up
within tlie French lines.
SUNK BY U-BOAT
PARIS, Aug. n. Tho French
cruller Lupcilt Thours Iiiib neftn Riink
by a German submarine, it la official
ly announced today. Thirteen of the
crow are misalnx. American destroy
era rescued tho remainder.
The U ii petit Thours was co operal
Ing with I'nltert States naval foico
In patrollnlg Atlantic navigation.
Tho iJupetlt Thours was an armor.
ed criilsi-r built In 1S1I9. Tho normal
complement of the crulKer was St'i
men
3
IN LONDONliSTRl
LOMMiN, Amr. 17. - Women si met
cur coinitictuis lodav refused lo lake
out their Mir until they had been
j:raiiti'd n live shilliny a week bonus
which hud been iriteu the men hut hot
the women. The women secured 'b-1
act ive support of the men ewndue
tors am dmcrs, who struck in fyiii
pntliv. As n result of the tie nn.
many munilion wotktM and biisines
men were unable to reach their place-
of employment.
FIGHTING IN 1
MOST FORMIDABLE
OF ENTIRE WAR
POINGA RE SEES
L
OF AMERICANS
French President Inspects French
Forts Transferred as Supply De
pots " for Yankees Submarines
Sunk During Visit Participates in
Chase of U-Boat.
PAKIS, Aug. 17. President Poln
eairo and Georges Ley sues, minister
of marine, returned to Paris today
after a visit of two days at a French
port where they Inspected the Franco
American naval bases and were en
abled to obtain a first-hand view of
the co-operatton of the two navlos In
combatting German submarines.
Immediately after their arrival there
a report was received that an enemy
submarine had just been sunk by a
French putrol, while It was confirm
ed at the same time that another
submurine had been destroyed by an
American patrol a few days before.
President Poincaire made a in in
itio Inspection of various American
installations at the port, being espec
ially Interested in the hydro-ulrplanc
station.
Meets n, Convoy
While the two officials were at t ho
port a convoy was signalled coming
In and the president embarked on a
war vessel and went out to observe
the nrrungements mado for the pro
tection of ships. A dirigible balloon,
hydro-airplanes and rapid destroyers
co-operated perfectly in preventing
any submarine attack which might
have been made. The ennvov came
Into tho harbor wit a each vessel
keeping In perfect line until tho
anchoruge was reached.
After this President Polncalro went
on board a destroyer and participat
ed in the chase of an allied submar
ine below the surface. The chase
lasted for nn hour and If tho sub
marine had been German the pursuit
would have ended dimitftrously for It.
American Depot Visited
The visit of the oftlclub wns ex
tended to the American depots which
have completely transformed the
port. A report was handed the presi
dent showing that a convoy which
recently .arrived from America dis
charged 30,000 tons of materials In
ten hours, thanks to the efficiency of
the American arms.
Admiral Wilson received President
Poincaire on board n repair ship
where a medallion hearing the In
scription "commemorating the union
of Frame and America," was pre
sented to tho president. Later Presi
dent Polnealre examined tho new
type of American destroyer and re
viewed newly arrived American
troops.
WASHINGTON, Apg. 17." The
Ihrwilened crisis m the relations of
Mci-n with the entente allies ami
the Flitted Slates apparently has been
averted by a modification of the new
Mexican oil tax decree by President
Carranzn,
It Wiis learned today Unit on Aug
ust 1! Carninza iu effect eini"elled
provisions of the decree of Jul" last
under which unde eloped oil lands
might be sr-ied bv the Mexican gov
ernment upon failure of their own
ers to inaKc dechmi 1 ioiis and submit
to what they regarded as excessive"
taxation.
I'KAI Foin', N. .. Aug. 17. The
Itritish t it ii k -tinnier Mirlo was tor
poed by a Herman submarine off
Cape Ihiltcins hist night ami accord
ing to reports reaching here today
nine members of her crew were
drowned.
All the other member of the Mir
Ioh crew were haved by coast guards
and have been brought safely to
fllOlC,
NAVA
BASES
WAR PROFITEERS 1 450 000
MOST NUMEROUS i Srmni iio
IN FOOD LINES
Income Tax Returns Show Packers,
Millers and Canners Lead All With
Cotton and Woolen Manufacturing
and Dealing, Coal Mining, Copper
and Other Metal Produers Next.
WASHINGTON, Aiur. 17. War
profiteers in 1D17 were uiot numer
ous in business devoted to food pro
duction and distribution, cotton and
woolen manufacturing and dealing,
coal miniuir, iron, copper, aluminum
and other mctn) production and oil
production and distribution, accord
ing to a treasury analysis of income
tax returns.
. In addition thousands of small con
cerns in n great variety of classifi
cations made profits ranging from
100 to .'1,000 per cent abovo their nor
mal pre-war profits which even them
were considered high.
Profits Spotted
In citing certain industries as con
taining the largest percentage of
profiteers, the treasury has made it
clear that not all individual business
J iu these groups have gat3iered in
(swollen earnings. This is true partic
ularly of cpu) operators, some of
whom made enormous profits while
others made barely enough to pay
regular dividends. Manufacturers of
clothing and other articles reported
big profits.
Lumber production, stimulated by
the sudden enormous demand from
cantonments ami other government
operations, netted forest and Haw mill
owners as well as distributors pro
fits several tunes above those of nor
mal years. v
Oil producers made enormous pro
fits which they claimed justified by
the rapid depreciation of stock and
the extra financial hazard of their
business.
I 'ackers Uad All
Meat packers, Hour millers and
canners stood at the top of the list of
loud profit takers, according to in
come returns. Farmers alo made
money heavily last year, but not
enough of their returns have been an
alyzed to justify a genera! statement
of their protils, officials say.
Prof iteering was by no means con
fined to big business. Small scale
producers, in thousands of cases, re
ported pro! its eo,ua I to the aggre
gate of from fixe to ten years' earn
ings before the Tinted States entered
the war.
E
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17. Capture
of Irktu-sk, the important Lake Haiku!
port of the trans-Siberian railroad,
by the (,'zeelio-Slovaks aideil by the
Siberian people's army on July 7, is
announced in a belated dispatch from
American consul Harris at Irkutsk,
dated July ami received today lU
the state department.
The council reports through the
American charge d'affairs at Peking,
lie had not been heard f rom for many
weeks.
The railway l SumnnrMs open, ac
cording to Coii-ul Harris, from Ivk
utsk, but trains are not running
through to Mo-eow. The Czech com
inander, he said, had reported that
as late as July 0, they bad lost -")U
men lulled and I.L'uil wounded.
The.se advices also report the cs-tabli-hiniiet
of the new Siberian gov
ernment witn heudijunrters at Omsk,
where the people and the government
have repudiated the If rest - Litov sk
treaty nml declared their determina
tion to fight (he Centum-,
All American in the wc-lcrn Sibe
rian section arc reooited safe.
HIYICniuHllO
E
1,550,000 in America Awaiting Trans
portation, Says March Russian
Situation Bad Withdrawals by
Germans Expected Only Artillery
Duels on Vesle Location of
Troops in Battleline Harris Ap
pointed Adjutant General.
WASH I NOTOX, A ug. 1 7. More
than l,4f)0,000 American soldiers
have been embarked from the United
States, General March, chief of staff,
said today. This includes men sent to
Italy ami Siberia as well as to France.
General March was talking to
newspaper correspondent h iu semi
weekly review, lie said official re
ports through tho Sanish embassy
irive no evidence that American pris
oners in Germany are singled out for
mistreatment as has been reported.
Very detailed reports, including tho
dnily menus are received find show
that the question of the i rent men t of
prisoners has largely become stand
ardized, ,
Senators 'also were informed ibnt
the ittihsinii hitutiicm is very b;id
because of 'fhe general complexity of
affairs there. 1 hey were given to
understand that there was not muck
chance of establishing- u real offen
sive on the eastern front hecnuse of
the great number of men that would
be required.
Kcct Withdrawals
Discussing the battlo situation on
the French front, the chief of stuff
drew utteuliou to the t'm't that tho
Germans have now voluntarily sur
rendered portions of their lines at
four different places. He placed no
construction of his own on this, but
it was taken as an indication of nn
expected further withdrawal by tho
enemy. In a general way the linos
uencrall" arc stubilized on a front
closely following: lDHi-1917 positions
in Picardy and along the Aisne-Veslo
line fo the south.
On the Vesle fnml where the Amer
ienn troops are in line only artillery
fire and raids have been reported,
General March said. He read a
French divisional order paying liiidi
tribute fo the valor and efficiency of'
the second arlillrey brigade of the
sccom American division, which
aided the I'Jlh French infantry in two
days of fierce lighting at Chateau
Thierry.
locution of DlvUloiiN
A to the location of other di
visions. General March said that tho
80th division ( Pennsylvania nnd
Virginn troops) wns (mining with tho
Uritish in Flanders: that the 88th
(North Dakota, Miunesofu, Iowa nnd
Illinois troops) was in process of em
barkation and that the 8'Jnd, (Ala
bama, George and Tennessee troops)
was in line north of Toul where it
arrived early iu July, lteports do
no show that the HJnd division, he
said, ha been been engaged.
General March said the losess of
the lliltb regiment ( Pennsylvania
(Continued on Pago Six,)
SYSTEM AT YAKIMA
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17. Impor
tant linprnvoinnntfl nro to bo made 1)
tho reclamation porvlre In Yakima,
Wash., Irritation dlxlrlct. Sci-rotary
l.ano announced today that a con
tract hoa boon madu by tho govern
ment whereby $1." 0,000 or u much
of that sum an necessary, Is to bo ex
pended iu the enlarKoment and bet
terment ut tho Tleton nui In canal nnd
distribution eystem of (he Yakima
project.
This sjRtem provides water for tho
Irrigation of approximately 33,000
acres of land.