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Oc?fnn Historical too . Public Auditorium "WEATHER Maximum Yesterday, GO; Minimum Today, 39; Precipitation, .78. FORECAST Tonight and Tomo row, Rain, T Medford Mail Tribune Forty-eighth Tear. Dtllr Thirteenth Taw, MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1918 NO. 202 AMERICAN AND IAT con E "Rhine Is Reached bv Yank Blrdmen American Mission to Go to Sua German and Austrians Carrvino. Out Naval Terms of Armistice Beattv Meets German Delegates , Crews of Hun Submarines to Op pose Revolution. ' LONDON, No. 15. American auaien landed at Cologne on the Rliino Thursday, according to a Cologne dis patch to the Conpehagen Politiken and transmitted by the Exchange Telegraph company. Americans Go to Spa LONDON. Nov. 15. An American mission commanded bv Major Gener al Khodes will leave . Saturday for Spa, German headquarters. Marshal Koch announces in a wireless mes sage to the German high command. The mission will consist of six of ficers and nineteen soldiers. The German command is asked to give in structions to allowi the mission to pass., PARIS, Nov. 15. (Bv Associated Press.) The naval terms of the Ger man and Austrian armistices are be ing carried out rapidly. LONDON. Nov. 15. (Bv Associat ed Press.) The German cruiser Kocnigsberg, which is carrying the German delegates to arrange the nav al terms of the armistice, it is under stood here will be met by British war ships this afternoon and will be es corted to a point nt sea where the German delegatus will meet Admiral Sir David Beattv, commander of the British grand fleet. Admiral Hugh Hodman will be the American representative at a meeting tomorrow . 'with German naval dele gates at a British port. U-Bont Crows Loyal LONDON, Nov. 15. The crews of .German U-boats at a mass meeting at Brunsbuttel, according to a Copen hagen dispatch to the Daily Express, resolved to oppose the revolution and reinstate the officers. Thev decided to fly the national flag instead of the rtni flag. Kvacuntlng Poland LONDON, Nov. 15. The German army has begun a general evacuation of Poland, according to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Copenhagen ouoting reports from Berlin. German troops in Wnrsaw have been disarmed nnd arrested as well as have German civilians in tho Polish capital. AMSTERDAM, Nov. 15. The new German government has issued an ap peal to the peasant population asking for tho formation of peasants' coun cils for the purpose of organizing food supply. The appeal says that such voluntary self-determination is better than bureaucratic organization nnd will avert rcconrso to compulsory measures. JUGO SLAVS TO IE WASHINGTON, Nov. 13. Com plete agreement as to the union of the J u go-Slav provinces of Austria with the kingdom of Serbia has been reached by Premier Pachitch of Ser bia and the delegates of the national council of Agram as representative of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes of the Austro-Hungarlan empire, accor ding to an official dispatch received here. The conference was held In Geneva November 7. At the request of the delegates mm Agram, Premier Pachitch will present to the Serbians and allied governments the proposal that the national council of Agram be recog nized as the supreme power of the newly constituted state composed of parts of the Austria-Hungarian mon archy until the formalities of the final union with Serbia can be car ried out. CABLE CENSORSHIP NOW DISCONTINUED WASHINGTON. Nov. 1. Discon tinuance of press censorship in con nection with onhlo, postnl nnd land telegraph lines, effective at once, was announced lodnv hv the government censorship board. SENATE DEBATES DUTCH CLAMOR NATIONS LEAGUE FOR ABDICATION TO FORCE PEACE Walsh Quotes Llovd- George of 0p posina President's Plan and Calls Attention to Fact That British Sav Germany Should Be Member Sub sidized Press Opposes Disarmament WASHINGTON, Nov. IB. Sena tor Walsh of Montana, Started a dls cusslor In the senate today on the t.RHgUB of Nations plan to enforce peace. He said Lloyd-George had "come out squarely" for the league proposed by President Wilson and called especial attention to a state ment by the British under-secretary for foreign affairs that Germany should be a member of the league. When Senator Walsh 'asked inser tion in the Congressional Record of the British addresses, Senator Pen rose of Pennsylvania, republican, de clared the League of Nations plan at present has a "very nebulous aspect" and Is "a novel idea that should be very carefully considered." Keferrinr! to Colonel Roosevelt's opposition to admitting Germany to an international league. Senator Walsh said: "I might as well be recognized that when orderly government is established in Germany, she must be admitted to the league if it Is form ed, or we and our allies must perpet ually maintain for all time a mili tary establishment sufficient to over awe her." i Senator Walsh quoted several passages from M. G. Wells, the Brit ish author, praising President Wil son as the leader of English political thought, and also read a discussion as to objection to the league, includ ing a statement that "a subsidized press" opposes disarmament. -'v - Senator Reed of Missouri, inter rupted to ask If munition-makers control any part of the press. Sena tor Walsh replied that "he had not the slightest doubt of It." H. G. Wells was characterized by Senator Poindexter of Washington as a brilliant writer, a socialist, pa cifist and an internationalist belong ing to a "great class of . radicals" whose doctrine was advocated by the former kaiser. I TASKS OF PEACE T WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 Support tor the United War Work campaign to uphold America's sons abroad in the important tasks of peace ahead of them was asked today, by Secre tary Baker. "I think all Americans recognize the fine record of the army," said the war secretary, "but we must not fail also to appraise the work it has yet to do. Following the exhilera tion of combat comes the tedium of peace, but the tasks of peace are in finitely important and we must up hold our sons as they perform them. This drive for the United War Work fund is a direct challenge to measure our appreciation." Provost Marshal General Crowder issued a statement emphasizing that money for the welfare workers will be more needed now than during the war. u "Our boys will remain In the ser vice for many weary months," he said. "The period of reorganization and rehabilitation will have to be gone thru. "Now the Incentive of fighting is removed, the excitement and glamor are gone. Now comes the Important work of these organizations. They cannot do this unless the American people promptly and generously re plenish their war chests." OF in Radicals Demand Republic in Holland and Queen Summons Jonkheer Co lin to Take Charqe of Government s Proclamation Issued Askinu Co operation of Citizens in Crisis. LONDON, Tov. 13. The threat ening attitude of the extremists In Holland who have demanded the ab dication of Queen Wllhelmina is causing anxiety at The Hague, accor ding to the Daily Express. Jonkheer Colin, the former minis ter of war, who has been In Londou since July, returned to Holland Thursday. He was recalled, the Daily Express believes, to take charge of the government. The for mer minister has great influence in Holland and several times has re fused the request of the queen to form a new government. THE HAGUE, Thursday, Nov. 14. The Dutch government has Issued a proclamation urgently appealing for the co-operation of citizens In a "grave crisis." It Bays the majority is threatening to seize power and declares its determination to main tain authority and order. OF WASHINGTON, Nov. 15. Squads of American airplanes fighting in France up to the moment of the ar mistice were maneuvering under the vocal orders of the squadron com mander that reached each pilot by radio telephone. f. i News of the successful develop ment of this device hitherto a mili tary secret, tho some inkling of it had reached the Germans just be fore hostilities ceased, was allowed to become public today by John D. Ryan, director of aircraft production. WASHINGTON, Nov. 15. Presi dent Wilson personally Inspected to day the first American-built Handley Page night bombing airplane which, with thousands of others like it would have played an important role In the war had Germany not capitu lated. Accompanied by Mrs. Wilson and Secretary Baker, Director Ryan of the department of military aero nautics, and General March, chief of staff, in attendance, ' the president looked over the big machine as It stood on the Polo grounds Of the Mall and later watched it take tho air. Mrs. Wilson climbed up the ladder to the under-hatchway to look thru Into tho quarters of the aviator, bombers and gunners. To Illustrate the great sie of the giant bl-plane, a Blngle seater was parked beneath each of its broad wings, completely sheltered under their spread. Thoy looked like ton ders to a battleship. CABLED PERSHING WASHINGTON. Nov. 15. Con gratulations nnd expressions of the nation's proud esteem were cabled to General Pershing for the American army to France lodnv hv Secretary Bilker, with n promise that now a re spite has, eome, the war department will do nil in its power to expedite the early return of the expeditionnrv force so that the country nmv wel come its soldiers home, E U.S. BEEF TRUST LONDON, Nov. 15. In a discus sion In the house of commons yester. day concerning the food question and control of the meat supply, the Amor. lean meat trust was criticised sovere- ly by some speakers. Major Waldorf Astor, parliamen tary secretary to the food ministry said that the trust controlled more than bo per cent of the available and Importable meat supplies which con stituted a serious menace. However, he added, tho Inter-allied food coun cil set up by the food controller and which would buy in the world's mar kets was going to be stronger than the trust. It would be able to dictate to tho trust If necessary and would be aide to fix reasonable prices for consumers. DUTCH QUEEN WHO IS ASKED TO ABDICATE BRUSSELS CALM : Of DESPITE LACK iOF GOVERNMENT No Organized Authority While Citv Awaits Comina of Allies German Commander Pleads for Peace Soldiers Break Guns and Throw Pieces In Ponds. LONDON, Thursday, Nov. 14. More than 100 men, mostly Gorman officers have been killed In disorders in Brussols and soldiers' councils have been formed In that city and at Antwerp, according to an Amster dam dispatch to tho Exchange Tele graph company quoting tho Tolo- graaf. Queen wilhelmina HOLLAND . l OF FAMlNEiTAKiNG DEATH TOIL IN ALLIED FORCES SAN FRANCISCO. -Nov. 15. Tho storv of how the "Giruen.- Army" or deserters from the Austrian army, which poured .do. ,froni Liku mountains in Jugo-Sluvin and tho Carpathians and from the Austrian rear aided the recent Italian ol ten sive was told here todav bv Dr. Liubo Lcontich, member of the Jugo-SIav national council, who is visiting -in San Francisco. Here is his storv : "The 'Green Anny', so called be cause of the verdant setting of the fastness, in which thev hid themselves while awaiting the hour to strike, is made up of one million deserters from Austria's Jugo-Slnv and Czecho-Sluv forces. Thev nre well organized guer illas, led bv students from Prngne and elsewhere. Thev donned tho Hnpsburg uniform hut answered the call to battle the Latins, tho Serbs nnd their fellow Slnvs in Ukroniu nnd Bukowina bv deserting in hordes to the mountain. "There thev waited through the years of war, living primitively and ever watching unlil they could sweep down upon the plains of Croatia nnd Serbia. . The revolt of a Croulion reg iment at Finnic a f.aw weeks ago was the fignal. Thev swarmed I'nin ihcir retreats and cut the communications between Vienr'. Uerlin and Sophia. Oi the one hand Ihev joined the Serbs thrusting the invader nnd on Ihe il li er they joined their fellows; Dal niiili.Mis in the Auslriiir. rlcet lit I'ol'i, a. id turned over ihut lici t to the na tional council of Jiigo-Slin in. "Then Bohemia and the res; of Czceho-Sliivia flamed with revolu tion, nnd soon Hie Mngv.irs and the other ruling classes of the duel iimi) arehv were left to their fate. When it bus done its work the 'Green Army' expects to be the micHis of I ho mili tary establishment of Jugo-Slavia and Czeeho Slaviii, who,, while Ihev are separate peoples with separate gov ernments, have formed a close iiniiv of inlerests.'' Dr. I.eoiilieh. who was former edi tor of a . revolutionary paper in Prague, is here to recruit the nation als of his eounlrv and Czecho-Sluvui tor the work ol t lie two new nations The independence of holh of these peoples 1ms been recognized bv-the ftiited Stales and much of Ihe work in formation of Hie new governments is being done in Washinglo. FOUR CHOSEN TO AGREE ON PEACE TERMS President Reported to Have Selected , Secretary Lansina to Head Ameri- -can Mission. With Colonel House. Elihu Root and Judae Brandeis as" Members Believed President Will Attend Openinq Session. Tho Not as Delegate. : OIL DIRECTOR'S OFFICE ABOLISHED DECEMBER I i SAX FRANCISCO. Nov. II. Tli? office of Federal Fuel Oil Director of the Pacific const, now held bv I'rof. D. M. Folsom of Stanford Cn iversitv. is to be discontinued De cember 1, Professor l-'id-om an nounced today. LONDON. Nov. 1-17 Tho greater part of the forces under Field Mar shal You Mii 'lieiisen (in command in Roiiinuniu) has joined the revolution, (he Budapest A.est snvs, according to a Copenhagen dispatch to the Ex change Telegraph company. PRESIDENT CONGRATULATES KIWG OF BELGIUM WASHINGTON. Nov. 5.- Presi dent Wilson sent lv cable lodnv a message lo King Albert of the Itel gians felicitating him upon his birlh dav and paving tribute to llclgium's self-sacrilice which has won- her :i "frown of glorv" imperishable, ITALIAN HEADQUARTERS.' Nov. 14. (By Associated Press. 1 G. D, McLeed of Montreal, nn aviator, nnd ih .0. Young; 'of Dos Moines. Iowa, imprisoned by the .Austrians during the Italian campaign, have reached the Italian lines. They bring direct news of conditions in tho interior of AiiNtriu, huving traveled from Sal zerlnnd, near Vienna, after being lib erated. 1 "Horrible food conditions provnil in Austria," said McLeed today, "and it is unite possible that u million persons will die thero this winter from lnek of food, weakness and disease. Tho country is fiuiet now but another Uussiu may grow out of the sittiution soon as the troops returning from tho front discover that tho end of the war has not brought relief. 'Scenes along the railways aro hka those on the .battlefield. Wo saw bodies -scattered here and there ns a result of men crowding on the tops of -trflins and being swept off by tun nels. Thero were also bodies of wounded men who havo been taken from lied Cross curs and loft to die Terrible sanitiirv eondijions provail in little towns filled with returning soldiers "What .Austria needs is food. The oilier prisoners and I are alive only because food is received from outside of Austria. For three days a friend and I had between us onlv n littlo bad bread. It wiih about as big as u man's hand. Five hundred newly-ur-I'ived Serbian I mops aru keeping or der in l.aibaeli." S GRATEFUL TO THE PRESIDENT HEREIN Nov, 15.-Thn followin message has been forwarded lo Sec relarv Lansing: "The German government and the German people havo griilefullv taken cognizance of 1 lies fact that the Pres ident of the I'niled Slates is reudv to consider favorably the sending of food to Germany." t WASHINGTON. Nov. 1.. Sucre tarv Lausiiu' annouiK'Cil lodnv that he had acknowledged receipt of Ihe message ol Or. Soil' asking for a has tcning of Ihe peace convention in view of threatened famine in Ger many and bad requested that the Germans not confine Ihcir appeals lo the I'nileil Stoles uloiie. but address them also lo the allied governments, GHENT, Nov. 15 (By Associated Press). Thero Is no organized auth ority yet in Brussols, hut with com parative calm and dignity the Bel gian capital awaits the coming of the armies of liberation. On Sunday three delegates from the "Republic of Hamburg" arrived at Brussels. Standing on a balcony, the military commander of the city addressed a crowd of three thousand soldiers and clylllans. Three million Germnns have been killed during the war," he said. That Is sufficient. Lot us have peace." . General von Falkenhauaon, tho Gorman Eovernor-genoral of Bel- glum, received the delegates and In the meantime French and Belgian socialists addressed the crowds. Loiter From lllmlenlnii'g A letter has boen received from Field Marshal von Hindenburg who was at Blngen on the Rhine, It was read to the crowd. It Bald: "I am heartily In sympathy with the regenerative movement. Soldiers must buoy the Orders of the supreme soldiers' committee. Let us have peace." Some soldiers then entered the park, which has been closed to the public for four yoars. Theysmnshed tho marble slabs surrounding the boautlful ponds, broke their guns and threw the gun bun-els Into tho water. - Thoy then formed a proces sion and singing the "Marseillaise," pnradod thru tho city behind tho red flag. Tho only blooahed In Brussels oc curred on Wednesday wnen a patroi detailed by the soldiers' committee to keep order firod upon a disorderly crowd, killing twelve civilians and wounding about thirty. The crowd had disregarded the firing of a blank volley by the Boldiors. PARIS, Nov. 15. (Bv Associated Press.) Versailles, although not formaly chosen as the moeting place of the peace negotiators, is rcgurded as almost certain to bo the place se lected for the peace conference when the inter-nllied council reassembles , today. There ulso is littlo doubt that the supremo net of signing the peace agreoinent will take place at Ver sailles in the same historic hull whore tho German empire was proclaimed in 1871. . Delegation Selected WASHINGTON, Nov. 15. Ameri can delegates to the ifreut peace con ference aro understood to have been. solceted by President Wilson, al though there probably will be no an nouncement until the plaeo nnd-dnto . of meeting hns been decided upon. Discussion in well-informed quarters today of the probable personnel ot . tho delegation centered upon four men. Thev are: ' Robert Lansing secretary of state, to bead the mission; Colonel E. M. House, Elilni Hoot, Louis D, Brnndersrv- associate justice of the supreme court. Tho belief is growing hero thatTrosident Wilson himsolf will at tend the opening' session of tho con gress, though not to sit us a dolgnte around the pence table. - , , ; The intimation that President Wil son has chosen four men to represent the United Stales gives the first sug gestion of tho probablo size of tho conference. HUN AIR SERVICE SALE SWINDLERS UNDER ARREST SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 15. Knm- ilication of un alleged "endless chain" sales swindle through which it is charged 1)0(1(1 agents scuttercd throughout tho United Slates were victimised to the extent of moro than !, 000,000 was revealed hero todav wilh the arraignment of Mrs. hlbel .1. Cnyco, arrested under a secret in dietmcnt returned in Los Angeles in Mill) charging use of tho mails to do fraud. Edwin U. Crookcr, also under in dicliiient in Los Angeles, together with his brother, Harry li. Crookcr, and Frederick W. Sterling of Oak laud, was arresled in Los Angeles last night, according to udvices received here. Mrs. Caycb and tho three men nro said to be directors in the Domeslic Utilities Manufacturing company of 1'Jl South Itroudwav, Los Angeles, Thev are charged with using the mails to- defraud through Ihe sale of eon tracts lor t lie right to sell in certain districts washing machines and stove flues muniifiiclurcd bv the Utilities company. Mrs. Cavcc testified beforo United Slnti'H Commissioner Francis Krull todav that she hud profiled lo Ihe ex tent of $3-1,0(10 in operation covering 111 days. ' HEAVY RAVAGES CAUSED BY FLU IN OLD MEXICO JUAREZ, Mexico, Nov. 15. Graves plowed hko furrows in open fiolds. zerapes used as shrouds and wood wagons lor hearses were mado nec essary by tlio intluenza, ...ppiuoraio which swept over northern Mexico following tho appenraneo of the dis ease on the American border. All effects to have funeral scrvieos were abandoned when- the churches wore forced to close boonuso of tho spread of tho disease. Medical attontion was out of the question for there nro onlv a few don- tors m I lie small settlements nnd many of Iheso wero victims of tho disease. Tho supply of drugs was soon cxhnustcd and' urgent requests were sent lo tho border from Chihua hua Citv, Parrnl nnd Durungo Citv for medical supplies. These wero per mitted lo bo sent bv tho United Slides war trade board in sinto of Ihe fact thev appeared on tho con servation list of prohibited articles for export. One shipment contained 300 pounds of cpsom suits and largo uuaiititics of other drugs. Medical students were takon from the hospitals in Mexico Citv to euro for tho sick nnd volunteer nurses re cruited from the best families in tho large cities for service in the small towns under the White Cross, tho na tional' relief organization in Moxioo similar to the Red Cross. AMSTERDAM. Thursdiv. Nov. VI. Officers of the German air service have taken the Herman crown prince and his eldest sun lo a place of safe ty, ii'-ciuiling lo the Tiigebliitt of Itcr-lill, TEN DOLLARS A BALE NEW YORK, Nov. 15. CoJIon nd vniiced $10 a hale wilhin n few mill utes after the market opened here to dav. This represented the maximum of two hundred points fixed with view to preventing undue speculation as the limit for fluctuations during one day s trading, NEVADA LEADS IN SAlX FHANCI8CO, Nov. 15 With a 109 per cent subscription Nevada was still loading tho other Pacltlo coast slates In tho United War Work campaign, It was aniionncod hero to day. California had subscribed (1,963, r,l:i; Washington ?f)'ir,t87; Oregon .",7:i,000; Idaho (184,000; Utah )28S,300 and Wyoming (54,500, It was reported. ' Montana's figures wero to be nnnouncod later, 1
