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MTCDFORT) MATTi TTITRT7TTT!. MWDVOWT). OlWOOtf, SATURDAY, AFfiUST, '31, 1918
1
OF
I
Country Is One of Many Governments
: - but Allies Will Strengthen and So
. lidlfy All Parties Into a Unit
Against Bolshevik! and German
Prisoners.
(Stall' Correspondence.)
HARBIN, Manchuria, Aug. 1.
"Oo to NiberinI Write full purlieu
Inrs of situation there!"
In Ainkdcn, Manchuria, I got that
cable 1'roin lay home office in the
United States. I had boon on my way
to Peking. Hut peoplo ordered to
Siberia always go. I went! Out of
contentment into eliaoH.
All day I traveled northward over
the fertile Manoliurian plain in one
of the world's finest trains, the South
Mnnelinritiii express, pride of Japan's
colonial railway management. Under
the bright sun the Chinese farmers
worked six, eight, ten to n field
How peaceful that pastoral scene
was!
An American Outpost In Siberia
Hy evening confusion and haze be
pan. At Chang-Chun, half way to
Harbin, the. rain was a flood. Through
it I grasped at n straw, a man in
khaki, outpost of America, lieuten
ant in the American railway engi
neers corps serving in Russia.
At midnight I was on "Russian
soil" o Russian railway coach under
iiiissiiin sovereignty. The lieutenant
had fought n way for us through the
nofsy, twisting muss of Chinesn. Rus
sians nnd Japanese jamming the dimly-lit
Chang-Chun station platform.
, In the coach ho had seized a compart
ment for us fought for it.
It was almost pitch dark inside the
pouch. Wc couldn't see the lieuten
ant's face as we bade him goodhy. A
tallow candle, high in a lantern frame,
east just enough light to revenl two
hare bunks. No pillows! No bedding!
Monty of dirt!
Japanese Order KikIh; liussian
Anarchy I logins
We looked the door, folded our wet
raincoats into pillows, wrapped in
blankets the lieutenant hail given us,
nnd lay down. Japanese and Korean
trains had never been oven u minute
late. This train, made up hero, was
stnrtiiur more than a hour behind
time.
Japanese order had ended. Hero
began the Russian-run Chinese Knst
crn railroad, link in the Truns'-Siho-rian.
The. couch was Russia, and
Itussia was anarchy.
Pounding at tho door nwnkonoil.Svjj
three times. Twice it was passport
examination. Heavily boarded Rus
sian officials scowled over our pa
pers. Something was wrong. Thov
spoke no Knglish, I no Rnssiun. We
would bo arrestedf Or just thrown
offf They handed back tho pass
port. Safe again!
Thou other passengers tried to
force their wav into the compartment.
Wc pushed them out hy force, locked
tho door against them, and kept it
locked, no matter who pmindcd.
t'liinoso Work ltotween Firing Lino
J!y diiwn the train had crossed the
Snngarl river und was slopping 10
minutes to half an hour at everv way
side station. At each stop most of
tho passengers got out and walked up
nnd down in grouis, talking, like con
spirators. Kino forests bordered wide vullovs,
wet but now sparkling in (he sun,
where big herds of cattle grazed. The
Chinese farmers wore still b.is.y. I
have since seen them work between
the rifles of opposing forces. Hut u
strip each side of the track was Rus
sia, which is not working, and hours
late we dropped down on Harbin
Kussiun city in the heart of the
Chinese province of Mani'huriu, then
the only quiet sKit in Russia or Sibe
ria, then the only haven from soviet
rule and therefore crowded with refu
gees. Now Harbin is more Hum a "safe
port'' in the slorm of revolution. H
is a military base, today. Here inter
vening troops of the allies niv starl
ing their oKrations ngaitist ItoUho
viki and armed (li nniin prisoners.
Most of the trains just now, from
Chang-Chun to Harbin, are troop
trains, currying Chinese or Japanese
troops on the first stage of their jour
ney to ii ill the CiLorh-Slavs wipe out
Germanism in Siberia.
lliirMa (ho righting Center
In Harbin today diplomats agree
on nnd military staffs plan army
campaigns in Siberia, Orders for mil
itary stores are being sent, our ar
rangements made to receive and for
ward them. Here General llorvath,
Hovcrnor of these Russian acres,
through his position as head of the
Chinese Kuslern railway, proclaimed
himself provisional ruler of Siberia,
nnd from here he ent his army to
GrOilekovo, ou the Muucburiuu-Si-
SIBERIA
AND
CONFUSION
AND
MIL
beriitn border, half way to Vladivo
stok, to link up with the Czech army
which captured Nikolsk after taking
over Vladivostok.
It has been bard to keep track of
the different "Siberian governments"
I have seen arise in the last few
weeks. t is still hard to determine
just what will be the scope and who
tho head of the new order in Siberia
now forming out t)f these various fuc
tors.
At times there have seemed to be
five of them i
Siberia's Ftvo Governments
1 The llorvath government.
2 The autonomous Siberian gov
ernment, or "Uerber government,"
named after its frist premier, '
H The Vladivostok government,
which for a while claimed the support
of the allied consuls ut Vladivostok.
4 The western Siberian provision
al government, first announced to
have chosen General Alixclt' ns its
generalissimo.
5 The Czech-Slavs, on whoso sen
sational military successes, one of
the most electrifying campaigns of
the present war, which I am describ
ing in a later story, all the new Si
berian units have boon built up.
Hut it is my judgment that, when
all the rumors in this hotbed of ru
mors are sifted, things simmered
down, with allied intervention, to the
llorvath group, uecusetl of being
somewhat reactionary, and the auton
omous Siberian government group,
accused by llorvath of being too rad
ical and socialistic.
So great and so general Russia's
disorganization, even hero in com
paratively settled Siberia, that with
out allied intervention these two
factions would probably have re
mained at sixes and sevens, pulling in
opposite directions, until tho results
of the Czech military successes, the
actual, factual basis of the ho for
a now Siberia, had fallen down in the
oraek between them and been lost.
Kvon today full Siberian unity bus nut
been achieved. Hut
Why Intervention Now Is Tlincly
.,,Tho chief timeliness of allied in
tervention lay in this:
It eamo lit the psychological mo
ment to summon the Horvath crowd
and tho autonomous Siberia faction
to . unito with the intervening allied
troopH und the Czechs, and present n
single front to the Holshoviki and
armed German prisoners who are the
mutual enemy of all these, Siberian
camps.
"Only outside force could have
amalguinuted Siherinnsv even when
the Czech-Slavs presented them their
release from Holshovism on n silver
platter.'' On Hint basis und toward
that end the present eampaign is be
ing conducted.
TACOMA, Aug. 111. All the Tuco-
ma newspapers today nnonunced an
increase in price due to the rising
cost of publication. The Morning
hedged and Kvening News Tribune
increased from !? to !1 cents per ennv.
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TONIGHT
m hi p
SPECIAL ATTRACTION MONDAY AND TUESDAY
LIEUT. J. A. GALLAGHER
DIRECT FROM THE FLANDERS FRONT
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HUNS CUT OUT
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Itaproilurtion of a photo received from a ank m l- rance, showing
French children with their Itc-urts cut out.
(Dy Newspaper En
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug. 23.
The Huns In France do cut out babies
hearts hefore their mothers' eyes.
Pictorial proof of this Hun atrocity
has Just been received In Kansas City
from a Yank In France.
He Is Sergeant Claude Cox, JStli
railway engineers. Ho sent the pic
ture to his rather, S. P. Cox.
Sergeant Cox writes:
"The enclosed photo shows anoth
er of the methods ol ruining children
I
A double mix-up , between two
bicycles and their riders with two
cars in which Fay Diamond and Rol
lon K. Dunlan were Injured occurred
this noon nt the Intersection of East
Main stroot and South Central. Con
siderable excitement was caused by
the accidents.
Mir. Diamond was riding his lil-
cycle oast on Fast Main street und as
he approached the Intersection wit
nesses say that he was not looking
ahead but had his head turned and
was shouting something at Homer
Flwood Who stood on the sidewalk.
Just at that time William Hurgen,
west bound in a Ford car. was turn
TOMORROW
THEN
'BABIES' HEARTS
torprloe Association.)
that the atrocious Hun has found a
favorite pastime.
"The picture was taken a few-
hours after the city was In the hands
of the enemy and retaken by, the
French.
"I have seen the mother and grand
mother many times, nnd each of
them was horribly treated."
From their own lips, ho adds, he
has heard tho story of tho Huns'
brutality in torturing and killing the
two babies before their very eyes.
ing into South Central. He had
sounded the usual warning signal,
witnesses say, and when he saw that
Diamond did not see him munaged
cleverly to bring his ear to a stop.
Diamond crashed into his car and
was buckled up beneath It. He was
badly bruised and his clothes were
torn but he otherwise escaped In
Jury. ltollln niinlnp. who Is about IN
years old, was riding his bicycle in
the roar of Diamond, and just as the
latter was about to collide with the
cur. managed to swerve to one side
around the car just In time to collide
with the cor of Mr. Ehvood, the
joweler. lie was knocked under the
ear und the wheels passed over his
ahdonien and hips. Chief of
Police Timolhy carried him to the
office of Dr. Sweeney who at once
took tho Injured 'boy home at 2'2'i
North Central in an auto. Dunlap
suffered no broken bones but It Is
feared internal Injuries may develop.
Ho was resting easy this afternoon.
with MnrtfnM trftrlp 1 Meilforrl msil
OONir. FOREVER
OEM
MAN
POWER
BILL SIGNED
(Continued Prom Page one.)
and otherwise qualified for arduous
duties of soldier life, are to be taken
first.
Youth In their eighteenth year will
be placed In a separate group, the
war department has announced, to
'be subject to a special educational
program and will not be called until
the supply of other available men In
the new classes is exhausted. This
does not mean that their calling will
be long deferred, however, inasmuch
713 it has been announced that all
men In the new registration accoptetl
Tor general service will be under
arms by June 30, 1919. The man
power bill makes no specific provis
ional for separate classification of
1 8 year old boys and war dopartment
plans for their treatment have been
made on executive initiative.
Idlo Men Hounded Up
Altho the "work or fight" clause
"which would have affected Btrlking
workmen was taken out of the bill
before passage yesterday. Provost
Marshal General Crowder has plan
ned to apply vigorously existing reg
ulations relating to idle men or those
engaged in non-essential employment
to the newly registered men.
The man power 'bill was signed to
day by presiding officers of the house
and senate and sent to the White
House' for the president's signature
which made it law. The president at
once signed and Issued the proclama
tion carrying the new draft provis
ions into action.
After citing the law and stating
the regulations for registration, the
SUNDAY
BIG
BILL
HART
BY PRESIDENT
FRANK MAROLDA The Triple Voice Wonder
in a SelectiveJPiano Monologue
NO ADVANCE IN PRICES
COMING Douglas Fairbanks in "Say,
A coal shortage of from fifty to sixty million tons is predicted for the
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so great.
You can help save coal for industry and at, the same time simplify
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Complete stock of Ranges from which to choose. Telephone 68 now.
California-Oregon Power Company
MEDFORD, OREGON
president's proclumat(on read us fol
lows: -President's
Proclumution
"Fifteen months ago the men of
the country from twenty-one to thir
ty years of age were registered. Three
months ago and again lust month
those who had just reached the age
of 21 were added. It now remains to
Include all men between the ages of
18 and 45. '
"This is not a new policy. A cen
tury and a quarter ago it was delib
erately ordained by those who were
then responsible for the safety and
defense of the nation that the duty
of military service should rest upon
all able-bodied men between the
ages of 18 and 45. We now accept
and fulfill the obligation which they
established, an obligation expressed
in our national statutes from thut
time until now. We solemnly pur
pose a decisive victory of arms and
deliberately to devote the larger part
of the military man power of the na
tion to the accomplishment of that
-purpose.
l'rulse for Y'ontli
"The younger men have from the
first been ready to go. They have
furnished voluntary enlistments out
of all proportion to their numbers.
Our military authorities regard them
as having the highest combatant
qualities. Their youthful enthusiasm,
their virile eagerness, tholr gallant
spirit of daring, make them the ad
miration of all who see them in ac
tion. They covet not only the dhj
'tlnction of serving In this great war
but also the inspiring memories
which hundreds of thousands of them
will cherish thru the years to come,
of a great day and a great service
for their country and for mankind.'
Turn of the Older Men
"By the men of the older group
now called upon, the opportunity now
open to them will be accepted with
the calm resolution of these who
'realize to the full the deep and col-
emn significance of what they do.
Having made a place for themselves
in their respective communities, hav
ing assumed at home the graver re
sponsibilities of life in many spheres,
ry
in
A Thriller from
Start to Finish
-ADDED 'ATTRACTION-
Last Time Tonight
THE WARRIOR
Electric Ratries
looking hack upon honorable records
In civil and Industrial life, they will
realize as perhaps no others could,
how entirely their own fortunes and
the fortunes of all whom they love'
are put at stake In this war for right
and will know that the very records
they have made render this now duty
the commanding duty of their lives.
They know how surely this is the
nation's war, how imperatively it de
mands the mobilization and massing
of all our resources of every kind.
They wil regard this call as the
supreme call of their day and will
answer It accordingly. 1
Only a Portion Called
J'Only a portion of those who reg
ister will be called upon to bear
aims. Those who are not physically'
fit will be excused; those exempted
by alien allegiance; those who should'
not be relieved of their present re
sponsibility; above all those who can
not be spared from the civil and In
dustrlal tasks at home upon which
the success of our armies depends as'
much as upon the fighting at the
front. But all must register In ordfcr
thut the selection for military ser
vice may be made Intelligently and
with full information. This will be
our final demonstration of loyalty,
democracy and the will to win, our
solemn notice to all the world that
we stand absolutely together In a ,
common resolution and purpose. It
1s the call to duty to which every
true man in the country will respond
with pride and with the conscious
ness that in doing so he plays his
part in vindication of a great cause
at whose summons every true heart
offers its supreme service."
The motor car in which the Bel
gian minister of finance was return
ing from a visit to the front acci
dentally overturned. The minister
was injured in the leg.
For tho first time in tho history of
Sweden, a deputation of Laplanders V ,
waited oh the king recently to lay
certain considerations and decisions
before him.
MONDAY
WOLVES
of the
RAIL
Young Fellow"
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