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BUY LIBERTY BONDS THE BUY-WAY TO BERLIN YTEATTIEIk Maximum Yestmlav, 77; Minimum Tmluv, 43. FORECAST Tonight and Tomorrow: Fail-. Medforb Mail Tribune PUT YOUR DOLLARS IN UNIFORM Forty-eighth Year. Dally Thirteenth Yer. MEDFORD, OREGON", "WEDNESDAY, SICPTICMDKU 25, 1918 NO. 158 QVER40,Q 00 TURKS TAKEN IN PALESTINE ALLIES PUSH FORWARDON ST, OUENI Further Gains Made Against Increas ing Resistance Heavy Fighting in Progress 'at Gricourt and Selency Counter Attacks Repulsed Al lies in Macedonia Complete Split ting Apart of German-Bulgarian Forces in Drive Toward Veles. SHAKEN UP SHAKEN DOWN STILLHOLDSOU I Marshal Foch Discusses Situation Allies Will Not Get to Rhine Imme diately but Have Passed Over the Crest and Going Down Hill If Im petus Gathered, so Much the Better. PEACE EFFORTS RESUMED BY" VON HERRING German Chancellor Complains That Wilson Docs Not Meet His Sugges tions and Blames Russia and Eng land for Causing War Speech Unfavorably Received by Reichtag. LONDON', Sept. s2.". The process of closing in on St. Quentin was; con tinued by the Rritih who made pro gress in the Grieourt neighborhood and also in the Selency region west of St. Quentin. One thousand prison ers were captured in yesterday's op oration, particularly around St. Quen tin. Heavy losses were inflicted on the Germans in their attacks above Clri coiirt. British posts in the regions east of Arras, near Sanchy Cauchy, nlso were attacked and here likewise, the enemy was driven off. Further (fains Scored 1!Y THE ASSOCIATED PHKSS, Sept. 2."j. In the eneireliti!; of St. Quentin and in driving the Germans nnd Unitarians northward in Mace donia, the allied armies are making further progress against increased enemy resistance. Northwest of St. Quentin the llrit ish have followed up the allied suc cess of vesterdav, in which the Brit ish nnd French made further gains toward the town from the west and are pushing forward in the direction of the northwestern suburbs. Heavy lighting is taking place in the region of Gricourt, less than three miles nniih-northwcst, anil Selency, two anil one-half miles northwest, the British are advancing despite counter attacks by the Germans, w ho were re pulsed with severe losses. On the I'Vench sector to the south, only the artillery has been active. Be tween the Aillctte and the Aisne the French have repulsed German attacks in the important territory about Moisy farm at the western cm! of the C'hcmin lies Dames. On Jlnceilonln l-Yont Apparently Hie allies in Macedo nia have completed the splitting apart of the Gcrman-liulgarian forces east and west of the Vardar. The Serb ians are pressing northwestward along the river toward Veles which the enemy apparently will not be able to hold, as other allied forces are inarching northward in that direction from l'rileu. Standing on the heights along the Iiulgarian frontier east of the Vardar south of Dcmirkapu pass, the Bulga rians are offering stiff resistance to allied attempts to advance. North of the pass, the enemy is retiring on elcs and it would appear that this column has been eat off from its comrades further south, thus splitting the enemy force in two. . The Bulgarian fighting on the fron tier west of the Vardar probably are those who fled before the French. Greek and British around Lake Doi ran. I'skiih the Objective , It is believed in Paris, the allies LONDON". Sept. 23. Marshal Foch. commander in chief of the allied armies on the western front, who dislikes Interviews and rarely grants one, received a few newspaper men at his headquarters Tuesday.) Anions those was the correspondent of the Telegraph, who thus records the mashal's brief utterances: "The British army is better than ever It fights better than ever. All of its losses have been mado good and it Is a more splendid army than it has been before. "The Americans are splendid and are wonderfully gallant in the field. Ten thousand fresh Americans arrive in Franco every day. "The French army Is the- same good old army that it was In 1914. Xo moro is to be said." In discussing the general situation, the marshal said: "The enemy Is shaken up and sha ken down, but is still holding out. You must not think that we shall get to the Rhine immediately. We have passed over the crest and now are going downhill. If wo gather im petus qs we do. like a rolling ball, so much the better." With a few cordial -words the mar shal then dismissed his lntedvfewerr and resumed his work on his maps. ALLIED SUCCESS (Continued on Page Six.) SWEDISH GUNBOAT m&m BY HUN MI COPENH.UIK.V. Sept. 2.'. The Swedish gunboat (ielnhild has ben Funk by striking a German mine In the Skagerrak with the loss of the chief officer and elghten men, reports the correspondent of tho Poll) I ken at the Skaw. tho northern most point of Denmark. Persistent rumors, he adds, are current that another Swedish gun boat struck a mine a few days aco and that a grealer pari nf Ihe ere were killed. LONDON, Sept. 25. Tho entente allied success In Franco, .Macedonia and Palestine, have led the Cologne Gazette- to anxious consideration re garding future military developments. "Wo must do Foch tho Justice to say ho Is apparently "beginning to ob tain on a big scale that strategical unity ho has already obtained on French soil," says this leading tier- man newspaper and It conceded that the prosecution from nil sides of an allied offensive would bo a master stroke. Having mentioned tho super iority of the allies in men and mater ial, It continues: "We have already pointed out the enviable secrecy observed in the man ufacture of armored- tanks and the training of their crews, which now number not thousands but tens of thousands. To these must be added tho increase in the number of guns mine throwers, flamo projectors, ma. chine guns, gas and fog ammunition. and airplanes of all kinds. Cerman industry is unable to accomplish this In similar quantities." IN PALESTINE GROWS JUSTICE MOORE OF, SUPREME COURT DEAD SALKM, Ore, Sept. 'J1. Justice K, A. Moore of tho Oregon Mipreme court, died ttt hi home hero tudtiv. lie was 74 years of aye, urn a na tive of Maine. His early life was spent largely in Iowa, where lie wn ;i rhtMi teacher ami county superin tendent In-Core he took tip the study of In IV. Justice Moon- ideeted to the supreme eourt of ( tregoti in lhH'2 and had served cont inuou-ly since that time. He had heen in poor health for several tnuiith-. , LONDON, Sept. 2."i. The .speech of Count von llertling, the German im perial chancellor, delivered yesterday in the Ifcichstng main eommittee, made an unfavorable, impression upon Ihe Reichstag members, the Kx change telegraph correspondent at Amsterdam reports, in Reichstag circles, the address is considered to have been unequal to the gravity of the situation in that parliamentary body, whose parties were to meet this morning to decide upon their attitmh toward the chancellor. "But the object has been nttuiiwc! A hatred has been raised anion'. enemy populations ngninst the cen tral powers and purticularh ugnin-4 (iermanv a hatred which esdicws all mediation and chokes otf .ill just judgment. Americans Intoxicated "You have all read Premier Cleni eneeau's last speech, a speech which seemed in its fanatical hatred and the coarseness of mind displayed, , to surpass anything hitherto achieved. lint in Amcricn I found a many voiced echo, ns is proved by the pro nouncement s that are re idling our ears from ncros slue ocean. The wildest war furv is at pres-1 cut raging in the 1'nited States. J he people are intoxicated with the idea that America must bring the blessings modern literal kultur (?) to the enslaved peoples of central Kurope. while at the same time thev are re joicing at the many millions of dollars which the war armaments are caus ing to (low into the pockets of the businessmen. Belgium and (i recce, ''Theory and practice are two dif ferent things. The old proverb of (he mote in another's 'eye and the beam in one's own finds constant illustration in the maehiuiilions of the etentc, Thev are ever tired of condemning our march into Belgium, hat they pass over the oppression of (ireece, tJio interference with that country's internal affairs and the en forced abdication of its king as if they were mti Iters of course. They a--.crl that Ihey lire fLdiling to pro tcci oppressed nation, hut the cen tury old sorrows and the justifiable grievances of Ireland nowhere find a hen rim:, not even in America, where the people lire acquainted with them through the numerous Iri-h immi grant-;. The Brit ish government which is c-peciclly fond of talking of riLrht and justice recently found it computable with those principles to rcco'jnize the conglomerate rabble of Cci-ho-Stavs, as a belligerent power, (ictinaiis Still Hopeful "I low will the German people have to meet that ? Will it, forsooth, be for mercy in fenr and trembling? No, licntleineti, remembering its great pa-t and its -till greater mission in the future, it ill stand erect and not cnrine or grovel. ''The situation is seriott but it f LONDON, Sept. 25. Moro than -10,000 prisoners and 2G5 guns havo heen taken by the British In their successful of- fensive in Palosttno It is of fie- lully announced this afternoon. Tho British forces operating east of the Jordan apparently 4 are in a favorable position to cut off the Turks retreating north along the Ilcdjas railway. J The British are now approach- Ins Amman on that railway. Arab forces are pressing the retiring enemy northward from Ma'an. (Ma'an is on the Hedjas railway, southeast of the Bead 4 4 sea. Amman is 120 miles to 4 4 the north). v 4 4 YANKS CAPTUR E I OLDTOWERUSED BY LUDENDORFF Twelfth Cent'iry Structure Near Chateau Thierry Personal Head quarters From W'lch German Chief Planned Capture of Paris- Giant Bertha in Forest Nearby. GEM ft OUntUULLU Program Adopted by Social Demo crats of Reichstag Actually Em bodies Kaiser's Terms No Annex ations or Indemnities Vague on Belgium and Serbia. ST. PA 11 Minn., Sept. 2-"). Arch bishop. John Ireland of the St. Paul diocese of ttie Roman Catholic church died at :t:.V n. m. lodnv. He was bU voars of nge. , John Ireland, archbishop of SI. I Paul, held such a keen and active in terest in genera) a flail's in the Vni tel States during the past half cen tury that he was noted as u publicist, as well as for his religious zeal. He was one of the most distinguished of the Woman Catholic churchmen of America.' There were few J'rields of intellectual, political or spiritual en deavor in which he failed to take a positive stand making himself at times the center of a controversy. Born in IS.'ii) in Ireland, a carpen ter's son, he was carried with his parents in the tide of Irish immigra tion to America while he was a child, altar service at Burlington, Vt., and a jolting trip west on a prairie schoner were among his boyhood memories, bringing him finally to St. Paul, Minn., in 18.VJ, when Indians in gray bhinkcls stalked the streets nf that frontier town. Bishop Cretin sent htm in charge of n guardian to France, where he was educated bv the Marist Fathers. When he heard of (be outbreak of the Civil war in America, the student turned home ward, fired with hn much patriotism as religion. Affcr beiiiL ordained at St. Puu! he eagerly accepted nu appointment as chaphiin in the Fifth Regiment of the Minnesota Volunteers. He became bishop in 1H75 and urehhishop ;n HH. He received sup port from many of his admirers ior aiHiointmcnl as the fourth Ami-ric.in cardinal. Celebrating his uohh-n johuilee a few years auro, the priest of his dioce-c presented him with , nurse of . I Mii.diMI. As a speaker Arehibi-hop Ireland was direct and magnetic, with a sense of humor. (Continued on Page Six.) Lohind Willlts of Cottatre Grove, who had heen working In Klamath county for the pat four month, left for honift today after a vl-lt with Mr and Mrs. J. ll Bellinger. ALLIED FORGES IN TOKIO. Friday, Sept. -JO. - ( By the A-ociated Pp-s.i Order has been n-t'tred in the cit v of Kubarov-k, say- a wir otfu-e statement. (Ji-neral Yuinada-' detachment b-lt that city tor tile ues hy rail September 1'J t" cUack the enemy on the Amur river. American and Chinese forces par ticipated in the capture o gunboat from the Bol-heviki recently, and are eo-operatmif with the .lannnesc. .Japanese cavalry entered the city of NVr bilisk, eal of Chita, on Sep (ember 0, 55,900 IONS OF (By Kdward M. Thierry.) CHATEAU TIIIEItKY. France, Sept. 2.1. American troops have blasted General Ltidendorff's clahor ato plan to use Chateau Thierry as a base for a sice of Paris. I have seen the 'tower, seven cen turies old, which the Gorman com mander made his personal headquar ters. It was tin; hub of the vast net work of lines pf communication, rail ronds, telephones, telegraphs, ammu nition dumps and supply depots. . It was the spot where the premier Doche .brain was plotting the extinc tion of scores fiore of French vil lages, planning the 'triumphal march Into Paris. This spot an ancient tower sur mounting Chatca.i lo Neslo, ten kilo meters east of Fc-re-on-TanlcnotB nnd about 3.1 kilometers northeast oT Chateau Thierry "commanded" Paris. l.mlcmloii'f'H Quarters It was RcarcRty 90 kilometers (about 70 mllosi from Ihe French apltal. -Nearby, hidden In a woods. was olio of tho plant Hertha.i that shelled Paris. Several miles ahead along the banks of tho Mnrno wero tho Hun hordes. In the tower sat I.udendorff. his car figuratively to the ground and" morally to the wires, scheming the winning of tho war In 1918. And now that tower, cleaned of lermans, Is a b'irracks for American soldiers. The chateau where I.udendorff plotted was captured hy American troops. I.udendorff left behind rem nants of bin handiwork and valuable Information of his blighted plans. An American battalion of engl neer pioneers was salvaging In the Chateau lo iXiealo nnd vicinity when I visited It. Majjr Georgo Illair of Philadelphia, commanded tho battalion. AVIint Yankees Found This Is what tne Americans found In tho partly wrecked chateau and tho nearby Forest le Node: Two million dollars' worth of am munition. Hundreds of lliuusauds of dollars worth of food and supplies. Twenty thousand bottles of min eral water. Countless empty wino bottles and cigar boxes. A fully equipped hospital. S.-ores of newly made wooden crossos for graves. A well kept vegetable garden Staunchly oro.lcd outbuildings with double windows and walls, as If for winter oenirnnry. A huge telephone switchboard with network of wires. Everywhere was evidence that Lu dendorff had come to stay. 'American artillery parlly damaged the walls of th-) chateau buildings. Hut the ancient tower built In the WASHINGTON', Sept. 2.1. Thlr teen ships of all types of .1.1, into tons deadweight were completed and de livered to I be emergency fleet cor poratlon during the wck ending Sep tember 20. There were six steel ship of .'!l,4oo tuns capacity and seven wood and composite ships aggregat ing 24..1O0 deadweight Ions. Launching during the week num bored seventeen of a deadweight ton nace of 72.0o. Among the-e were eleven Meel ships of ,10.000 dead weight tons and six wood and com potdte ships of 22.200 tons. The lakes districts made the best record, delivering five nnd launching six s!ed ve.fels. The Pacific coast delivered one and launched two while the Atlantic const launched three. LONDON", Sept. 25 Thoro Is good reason to believe that tho program adopted hy the social democratic fac tion of Iho relchstng it its meeting on ronday actually embodies Ger many's peace terms, nccording to Rotterdam advices to the Telograph TUo resolutions Included unresist ed lndorrement of the re!chstag peace rernlutlon of July 1017, nnd declared In favor of German joining a league of nations based on a peaceable set tlement of nil disputes nnd genornl disarmament. There woro non-commlttnl declar ations on the restoration of Belgium and understanding; regarding Indom nltles and on the testorntloa of Ser bia t t.d Montenegro and a di-nra-tlon that tho peace troatlos of Ilrost- ltovsk nt: Bucharest must not hin der tho conclusion of poace. It was urgcr'. that civil administration over all occupied territories be given up on tho conclusion of peace to demo cratic parliaments wh'.ch are lo be established forthwith. Autonomy for Alsace and l.orralno was also provld-Ml for In Ihe resolu tions which also declared for univer sal, equal, secret and direct suffrrgo for all tho German federal states. It Is raid that Ihe Prussian lai rilng will ho dissolved If eqq:4 r. fftngn does not result without delay from deliberations of the committee of the upper house. With Expected Fall of Veles, Uskub Will be Next Objective From Which it Will be Easy to Move on Sofia Preparation for Offensive Began in , August and Guns Taken to Front Over Mountain Goat Paths Most - Difficult Region Invaded. SAN FHANCISCO, Sept. 25. Tho fourth liberty loan quota for the twelfth federal resorvo district Is $102,000,0011 with an allotment of $107,S70,r,00, for San Francisco, Liberty loan headquarters announced here today. Tho district quota Is not qulto double Its figure of $210,000,- 000 for the third loan, but San Fran cisco Is called on to glvo twice as much as she gave before. Northern California was given a quota of $ I S.I. -ISA, 0.10 and southern California 72,0(i7.:!.1o. Tho quota for Idaho Is $ I -I..1UI, 100; Oregon t:i:i,70S,100; Washington .1H,21.- SOU; Alaska $ 1 ,3110,400. The quoins were made out on the basis of gross bank rc-ources averag ed between the December III, 1917 and the June 29, 191s, bank calls. (Continued on Page Six.) FRANCE 10 ESTABLISH IWttIS, Selp. 'J.I.-Victor liond, miniver of provi-ion, will introduce n. hill in pa i liiiinent niillmnin'j nn i.iiviwiee bv the uoci riinent np to J.'itl.fMUI.IHMt frillies lur the piilpo-c o w'iiJinizim: ro-opcniluc re-tniirnnt' . Il will iil-o provide tor the creation o a central kitchen where ration will be prenared tor nil troop in 1'uris. Thc-e lire measure whieh M. Ho ret Itnoc will eradicate the increncd co-t of livinir. li' the scheme prove to he prati cmI, ' -iiiiilnr central kitchen will he created for poor civilian, POKTLAND, Ore., Hept. 25 (Irnnt whlto footHtops, jin I ii tod on every Hhlnwalk and rronn. street In tbo down town Hcctlou of thin city hy tmndredH of members of tho homo nard, who worked most of thn ninht, led today to Mlierty temple, where subscrip tions tiro biting taken for the Liberty loan. Ited kIkhs painted on the. Hide, walks every twenty feet Raid "Hit the Liberty trail." Portland's quota U I !i,0i)0,0no. LTfortH to miho thin hy the henlnnltm of the nailon-wldn loan campaign had resulted today In approximately ten million dollnrn worth of the bonds belli pledged. LONDON, Sept. 25. Rust of tho Vardar river in Macedonia, the Ger mans and IhdariuiiH are falling back on the Veles, 'Jo miles southenHt of I'sknb, nccording to n Serbian offi cial statement. Alonjr the Prilep-Orudsko road, tho Serbians have captured 3.'t tfuns nnd a Kreat number nf ntmmttion wagons and other material. , ( PA HIS, Sept. 2."). Stubborn re sistance is beiin; encountered by tho allied army under General Krunehot D'Ksperey, on the Puiljrurinn frontier beyond Dcmirliapu pns, and Stnun itsa station, where furious fiuhtintf is proceeding on the left bank of the river Vardar. The Unitarians arc, holding strong; positions on tho heights prolectinir their own frontier. This is the only place whero they are offering much resistance. ' I'Nkuli Objective With the expected fall of Veles it i believed that the next objective of tho allied army will he I'skuh in order to re-establish the Saloniki-t'skub rail way cocmunicatiou From Uskub ti will be easier to move into Duljraria than by attempting to culcr'throueji (he Strumitsa district where the nat ural defenses are exceptionally strong. Allied patrols have reached tho Unitarian frontier and at several places have penetrated into Iiulgarian territory, but no infantry is yet on Unitarian soil. The artillery steadily is bomhnrdinir the mountain passes through which the Unitarians arc ermoviii-r their heavy material under Ihe protection of strong rear Riinrds. Prepared In August t Prcparalioiis for the rcat opera tions in Macedonia bciin in August, tclcjrruphs the correspondent of tho Parisian, on the Saloniki front. The sector for the altaek lacked commu nications except for tout paths, A road laid out from Dojne to Pojar and Orevc-da, ami Serbian engineers set to work vigorously long before tho French troops to whom had been ns si'iicd Ihti uk of piercing the Bul garian line, were in position. The al lied stuff established quarters on tho y round a ml Micklcd the enormous task of preparation. Il was only durinir Ihe night pre ceding the allai-k that the assaulting (j-oops were brought up. Promptly at o'elock on the nioriiini; if Sep- Itiiibcr L'l, the arliltcry opened with such vii;or a to surprise the (lulga rians, who were not aware that heavy were taeimr them. 1 he brush wood was soon set afire and long olmniis of yellowish smoke began to aseend from the hillsides where the it rent valley resounded to the roar of the guns. io (Her (ho Top On September at o'clock in (Continued on Page Six. J ALLIED PROPAGANDA BUSY IN ORIENT LONDON, Sept. -The ministry id' information is cjirryinu on viuor- onr propiiiriii:ila in even' oriental country. Millions of copies- of pos t rs postcard-, lea tlct and book have been circulated Ihroiejhonl the Ofienl to counteract (Icrtnati influences LONDON, Sept. 'J.V-A number of French and ltnlib ollicers have taken refuge in the American consu late nl .Moscow which is under tho protection of Norway. According to a disptach from Copenhagen to the Kx-ehan-.e Teleuraph company, tho Dol sheik government has placetl u rfuard around the building and demanded the surrender of Ihe officers n,ud coiHiilate ol'lii'ials.
