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ONE GREAT BATTLE
RACES OVER FRONT
OF FULLY 300 MILES
The Germans still strove today to force
through Belgium to the French frontier.
Alone: the Franco-German
"mciHMTHS ATTACK in" ra?ecl from the Belgian to the Swiss border.
ILttflM Iflf M French, Belgians and English struggled desperately to
, dr;ve the Germans back.
If fever, It Is Claimed The Germans professed to be advancing steadily and
Jiic('iiDX,nfA :s-.irely; the allies to have checked them at all points.
Redly the issue was still in doubt.
What really was one mighty battle raged from the nor
the.Ti Belgian frontier to the Jura mountains.
Tiu- fighting front was more than UOO miles long.
It. ftivtched through central Belgium and Luxemburg
and along the whole length of the Franco-German border.
Tno engagement threatened to overflow into Holland
oo tho north and into Switzerland at the southern extrem
ity of the line.
From east to west there were places where the oppos
ing ranks of warriors were sixty miles deep.
No accurate estimate of the number of killed and
wounded had been made, but the total must have been
(Mbut Ri.ie m HM.-h ruir.Miii-Mt enormous, judging from the
points here and there along
let military experts agreed that the fight had only
be mm.
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Viu killed before the Belgians
thi'm buck and it whs added
taut tin' r j r t ion of killi'd to wniiiul
I'd h an liiLt.li.
Thrice Wi'dnt'wlay nilit the (icrmniM
cii.tvir'd and lust Uuhmi'Im, Bi'lgiuiii,
wirli ciuirniiiii.'t Im.i.ich.
Tln (n'liiiiin ndvance ou Nomur was
rcpurtcd tdn'cki'il today with mure
'I'tninnuiis Iiims'.'h. "
TIic I.icjji' forts Btill hold out under
n heavy honilinrdnii'iit.
Tiu Hclifiiui t! vi'rnment nccuscd thtf
'i i main or Killing wounded cnomien,
I of tiirturiiig eiviliann and of hujjo
thel'H of money, nnd planned an appeal
fo iiiMttruLs nijainst Hindi conduct.
s! Having passed through LuxomhuiK,
the (iennun guns woro hammering at
; t.njwy, France, defensec.
! Hard fit;litin progressod about pin-
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I'ontnMous.ion
shelled.
was being heavily
It was surmised this mennt
a Oermnn
attempt to penetrate the "Toul-Kpinnl
gap" in the French fortifications
If this happened, the French be
lieved the enemy would, find themselves
trapped.
There was actual hand to hand fight
"ig at several places along the fron
tier. Though tho ftermans declared they
'''""red Alsace 0f the French, they
asserted they still held their defenses
south of Mulhausen.
France's mobilization waa completed.
li issiu claimed victories in a series
'r siiuill fight.) along tho German and
Austrian frontiers..
me Herman war offie.n
was quoted
on its east-
admitting heavy losao
' oonier.
Servians and Montenegrins had
itiiing their own way in Bosnia
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expected to ask Italy again for aid,
"null it was considered certain Italy
n"l'ld aeain refnau '
H. E.',r!u";p published its declaration
r 3i War "t'linst Austria.
y; .unitary cabinet said it could not
Ki , "'nAnr''IH,rt!I of an nUl,mI't to kill
Albert of Belgium.
toll V i Cl!",,, of Dut,h reserves was
told to bo ready for a call eo the colors.
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Londm? ttacAu9trtan Fleet
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Thww no.u"8 for Protection.
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an'tliree'fT h,as in the Mediterra
8r"'orcd cruiser, . 8 CrUisers' several
late of war, according to the
way
frontier, too. fierce firht-
reports of heavy losses at
the line.
NEWS WILL EE OFFICIAL.
Loinlrrn, g. 13. War Min
ister Lord Kitchener announced
today that British newspapers
which publish news concerning
uriuy and navy operations not
authorized by "the official mili
tary press bureau will be hus
pended. Iiritish declaration,
from midnight.
boenme effective
Showinff Their Teeth
Home, Aug. l.'t. That tho Austrian
fleet was cleared for action fifteen
miles off Tola, while the British and
French squadron awaited them at the
entrance to the Adriatic, was asserted
by commanders of steamships which ar
rived at Venice today. They were of
tho opinion that there would be a battle
soon.
German Ships Dismantled.
London, Aug. 13. The sultan's rep
resentative denied reports that Turkey
had purchased the German cruisers Go
ben ami Hreslau, which reached Turkish
waters after a hot pursuit by British
and French warships.
The impresiou had prevailed here
that tho Turks were preparing to enter
the war as a German ally and that the
kaiser turned the two ships over to
them for use in connection with their
expected campaign. The ambassadors
account was that tho two vessels enter
ed the Dardanelles flying the Turkish
flag and that they had been dismantled
to be held until the war was over.
SOME MORTGAGE.
Lcwiston, Idaho, Aug. 13. One of
tho heaviest mortgages ever recorded
in Nez Perce county was that filed yes
terday by the O.-W. R. & N. company
with the county auditor, being a blank
et mortgage to tho Farmers Loan &
Trust company, of New York, for $111,
020,000, covering all the railroads, ex
tensions, branches, main track, real es
tnte, wharf or dock property and roll
ing stock belonging to the line.
The mortgage was signed by C. C.
Stillinnn, vice-president. The filing fee
was only $0.00, as tho document was a
short one.
SHAVE FIRST SINCE 1877.
Vancouver, Wash., Aug. 13. For the
first time since 187" D. B. Brumngin,
veteran engineer on tho Vancouver
ferryboat, shaved Tuesday.
. When Mr. Brumngin went to work
today the crew did not recognize him
until he spoke. The beard kept wrin
kles awny, not a line showing on Mr.
Brumngin 's face, although he is nearly
)0 years old.
Mrs. Brumngin is on her vacation
and the clean-shaven husband has fears
over the surprise in store for her when
sho returns.
M'LOTJGLIN WINS MATCH.
New York, Aug. 13. McLoughlin
won his tennis match with Brookes, 17
15. It was the most stubborn contest
ever seen on the Forest Hill courts.
In the first set each man won his
service fifteen straight times. Mft
Loughlin won Brookes' sixteenth ser
vice and then won his own service. The
set lasted an hour and 20 minutes.
At the end of the twenty second
game, the acore stood 11-11. Brokei
made repeated returns backward over
his head from the base line.
their
BALEU OREQOK, r THOBSDAriAOOVST 13, . MCE TWO CEITO 'SP.gg
CATTLE COST
AND BEEF PIE (IP
mm GRAFT
President Calls Attention of
Attorney General to the
Rising Prices
MUST DEFEND COUNTRY
AGAINST GRAFTERS
Increase of Foodstuffs on
Pretext of European War
Is Inexcusable
Washington, Aug. 13. President Wil
son today personally wrote to Attorney
(renernl McRoynoldn asking him to in
vestiuato tho apparently abnormal in
flation of food prices and ascertain
whether there was any conspiracy to
boost prices.
President Wilson's letter to Attorney
General Mclteynolils follows:
"The rapid and unwarranted increase
in tho prices of foodstuffs in thin coun
try on the pretext of conditions exist
ing in Europe ia ho serious and vital a
matter that I take tho liberty of call
ing your attention to it. I would be
greatly obliged if you would advise nie
whether under existing laws, there is
any action the department of justice
! could take by way of investigation or
legal process, and what federal legis
lation, if any, in your judgment, is
justiliable under the circumstances.
"1 feel this matter cannot be let pass
by without or trying to serve the coun
try. Certainly the country ought to bo
I iieiemieii, ir possible, against men tak
i ing advantage of such circumstances to
increase the price of food and tho dif
ficulty of living."
Starts the Inquiry.
; Washington, Aug. 13. The de
partment of .justice started an investi
gation into the cnusj for tho sudden
I rise of foodstuffs prices immediately
I upon receipt today of President Wil
son's letter. The president this after
noon asked the department of com
merce to aid the department of justice
in its investigation.
To Raise More Revenue.
Secretary McAdoo and Senators Sim
mons and Overman decided that the
government needed $100,000,000 annual
ly to offset the loss in revenue.
Congressmen were deluged with re
quests to tax exports.
l.epresentative Underwood this aft
ernoon assembled the house ways and
means committee to discuss taxable ar
ticles fcnd the amounts each would pro
duce. Senator Simmons urged immediate
action on a war tax bill.
"Unless it is done soon to supple
ment the present revenue," he said,
"the government will faco a deficit."
Cattle Down, Beef Up.
Chicago, Aug. 13. The price of beef
advanced here today despite a big drop
in the price of cattle. The receipts to
day at the stock yards were liberal, and
butchers say the packers, taking ad
vantage of the war, were boating the
prices unnecessarily. The price of meat
here has advanced 3' cents per pound
since Saturday.
CHECK GERMAN ADVANCE.
Brussels, Aug. 13. Germany's ad
vnnco on Namur has been checked by
the Belgians and French at Eghzee, the
war announced this afternoon.
Tho German losses were enormous, it
was stated.
The allies captured a number of now
German machine guns, niount;d on
automobile trucks.
The Germans were moving south
ward through Eghczee said the war of
fice, when the Belgians and French
took the offensive against them and,
by a series of fierce charges, drove the
advance guard back on the reserves.
Tho Belgian cavalry, it was added,
moved with extraordinary speed, plain
ly disconcerting tho kaiser a troops.
FOOD, RAW POTATOES.
Namur, Aug. 13. Several dead Ger
man officers were found in Belgium
Luxemburg with partly eaten raw po
tatoes in their pockets. Others, offi
cers and men, wore existing on unripe
fruit and vegetables.
Many of the German horses were
said to have died of starvation.
The Weather
Ocnerally fair
tonight and Fri
day; northwest
winds.' .
Ml
FIGHT ON
SOIL IS FIERCE ONE
AND HAND TO HAND
. (By William Philip Sims.)
Pans, Aug. 13. French and Germans were fighting
furiously today on French soil just west of the Luxemburg
frontier.
The engagement opened with a French repulse by a su
perior German force near Spincourt. The French, rein
forced, took the offensive. They forced the Germans
back on the main advance base with heavy losses and
broke the German line with a bayonet charge.
Much of the fighting, instead of being at long range,
which it was expected would be the rule in the present
war, was hand to hand, and the slaughter was dreadful.
The men of one German battery, it was stated, were all
slam and several guns were captured at the bayonets'
points.
Fighting continued today.
Germans Lose Heavily.
Paris. Auer. 13. The French in AIsppp linvo infi;,.
heavy losses on the Germans,
es louay.
The Germans made a furious attack on the French en
trenchments south of Mulhausen Mnndav
I stated. The French feimed
1'ians were enticed into a dangerous position. Wednesday
tne French, strongly reinforced, met them fiercely and
repulsed them with severe slaughter.
General Joffre, the French commander, was covering
immense distances up and down the lines in a racing auto
mobile. Georges Boillot, thrice winner of the Grand Prix,
acted as his chauffeur.
Government officials admitted that
French operations in Alsace were in
tended to divert the Germans' attention
from the French concentration along
the frontier.
They insisted that the position the
French took, just south of Mulhausen,
whan they evacuated that place, was
Mill nel.l.
Tha Germans-were again on the offen
sive in Belgium today.
The Liege forts, the dispatches said,
continued to hold out.
Experts said the nature of the Ger
n an maneuvres were such as to suggest
a plan to attack Antwerp.
ENTIRE ARMY ENGAGED.
Nancy, France, Aug. 13. The entire
German army was hammering the
French and Belgian lines tO'jay.
In this vicinity the Germans were
in strongest force in Belgian Luxem
burg, in tho adjoining duchy of the
same name and on the French frontier
south of Spincourt.
They were also heavily shelling the
French town bf Pont-A-Mousson, about
20 miles north of here.
This attack on Pont-A-Mousson was
considered highly significant, military
experts inclining to think the kaiser's
through what is known as the '?oul
forces expected to attempt pushing
Epinal gap in the French frontier
fortifications.
This apparently weak spot in a 200
or 300 mile line of almost impregnable
defenses is so obvious that the popular
view has long been it is some sort of
a trap and many predictions were
made that the Germans would meet
with disaster if they undertook to avail
themselves of it.
Slaughter Is Terrific
Brussels, Aug. 13. German attempts
to break the Belgian-French front Wel-
nesday hight failed, the war office here
announced today.
Fierce fighting occurred at many
points and losses were enormous, it was
stated.
That tho German attack on the Belgian-French
positions had only begun
was admitted by the war office.
The bombardment of the Liege forts
continued, but the forts still held out.
A Wednesday night assault on them was
defeated, the Belgian artillery killing
and wounding large numbers of Ger
mans. The Germans, however, had bridged
the Mouse with pontoons, and were
rushing cannon forward.
Fighting was believed to be in pro
gress at Namur, but details were lack
ing. Thrice the Germans took Hassels on
Wednesday night and thrice Belgians
recaptured it. Here, too, the losses were
frightful.
The German attempt at ft flankir.
movement, according to the war office,
was overwhelmingly defeated. It was
very extensive in operation, it was stat
ed, 10,000 German" cavalry beiug engag
ed in one out of a large number of en
counters. At Tirlemont 250 Germans were killed
in the first few minutes. Their attack
there had been intended as a surprise,
but Belgian aviators gave warning of
their approach, the Belgian-French allies
prepared for them, and when they ap
peared they galloped into a trap and
were mowed down in heaps.
King Albert automobiled constantly
from point to point .on the Belgian-
FRENCH
the war office here announc
a retirement. Thus the rw
French lines, keeping in touch with both
the forces in the field and the general
staff,
(Note. In the foregoing all referen
ces to exact geographical positions were
eliminated by the censor. U. P. A.)
Three Fifths Put Out.
j Brussels, Aug. 13. That three fifths
or tne uermans who took part in Wed
nesday's fight north of Tirlemont were
killed or disabled by their wounds was
asserted by the Belgian war office to
day. ine Dattie centered at Haelen, it was
stated, the lines extending north to
Diest, about five miles away.
A mixed brigade was said to have
supported the Belgian cavalry and in
fantry and artillery the German Second
cavalry division. The engagement con
tinued until the Germans retreated to
the north.
A church, brewery and several houses
were destroyed at Haelen.
The percentage of German dead in
relation to their wounded was verv
large, the war office said 200 of their
killed being counted in a space 50
yards square. ,
The Belgians captured many horses
and large quantities of supplies.
Germans' Dead 1000.
Brussels, Aug. 13. Additional details
of Wednesday night's battle of Haelen
were published this afternoon.
The German dead, it was said, ex
ceeded 1,000.
The kaisor's troops attacked the Bel
gian barricades savagely, it was stated,
men and horses falling in heaps in tht
entanglements.
The war office referred to the Ger
man retreat toward Tongres as a " dis
orderly rout."
RUSSIANS CLAIM
SERIES OF VICTORIES
Claim Success Was Almost Uniform In
All Clashes With Austrians No Ger
man Invasion of Poland.
St. Petersburg, Aug. 13. Almost uni
form successes in their fights thus far
with the Germans and Austrians were
claimed by the Russians today.
The war office issued the following:
"At Zolozchte the Thirteenth Rus
sian lancers attacked the Thirty-third
Austrian regiment and drove them
from their entrenchments in disorder
with heavy losses.
" At Volonchizck the Russians killed
1(1 Austrians and captured many.
"At Zbaraje a Russian infantry de
tachment defeated the Austrians.
"August 10 the Eleventh German in
fantry, supported by artillery, attack
ed Eydtkuhnene, East Prussia, which
the Russians had occupied, and wore
repulsed.
"No general German invasion of
liussian Poland has been attempted.
A German general commands the
Austrians."
Twelve million men have been drawn
from productive industry in Europe
because of national ambition, race hos
tility and human pugnacity. It is a
tremendous waste which somebody will
have to make good.
DECIDE 10 REPAIR
THE STEEL BHIDGE
WILL BID LATER
Will Put in New Planking and
Replace Some Piling
That Is Decayed
ESTIMATE REPAIRS
WILL COST $2500
Site for New Bridge Suggest
ed With East End at
Court Street
F-ecision to replank the Btcel bridge
uver me u niamette river nere, to put
new stringers where needed, and to
stiffen the approach at the west end
was made this morning as the result
of an examination of the bridge by
the county courts of Marion and Polk
counties. This work is found neces
sary to make the bridge passable until
a new structure could be built. Tho
repairs will cost approximately 2S0O
and will be commenced as soon as pos
sible. The work will be done by the
Polk county court. It is probable that
the expense will be equally divided be
tween Polk and Marion counties and
tho city of Salem.
During tho examination this morning
it was found that the top portions of
the stringers had become infested with
dry rot, that the nails were working
looso from the planking, and that a
majority of the piling sustaining the
approach were mere hollow shells, the
inside being weakened by dry rot.
Pounding on the outside with a pocket
knife resulted in revealing the decayed
interior. Bolts were found to be loose,
although the bracings were strong and
well put together.
West Span Weakest.
The weakest span in -the entire
bridge is the west one. When the
bridge was built the work was com
menced on the east side and continued
as far as the third span. Bridge engi
neers are at a loss to understand the
reasons for tho construction of this
span in the manner it was built. It is
declared to be a makeshift and utterly
unlike anything that has been put into
bridgce in this vicinity. That it has
stocd the strain of the past 20 years
muses wonaer.
Fire was discovered yesterday on one
of the pilings on the west side at the
point where the approach joins the first
west span. The blaze was discovered
by Watchman Irvin and with the aid
of a couple of men pressed into serv
ice it was extinguished, but not before
the piling had been severed from the
ground. It is believed that had the
firo gained any headway it would have
destroyed that portion of the bridge.
It is thought that tramps, who are
making the cool underbrush near there
a rendezvous at present, started the
fire, but that is mere conjecture.
New Site Suggested.
A tentative site for the new bridge
whs picked out by City Attorney Page
and Councilman Southwick. This site
would start the approach from the
point where it now is nnd bring it
across the river so that the east ap
proach would end at the foot of Court
street. The steel structure would end
on the banks and from the west bank
to the end of the west approach it is
proposed to build concrete arches which
would not need repair and which would
hist for at least 100 years. When the
work on the new structure begins, how
ever, careful survey of the ground will
be made and the site chosen that will
present the least engineering difficul
ties. The site chosen as ideal this
morning makes the distance less and
presents few -difficulties. That this
site will be chosen finally is probable,
as it will bring the traffic from the
west side directly into the heart of the
city instead of landing it half a dozen
blocks away, as at present.
Railroad Is Interested.
Mr. Powers, passenger agent for the
Oregon Electric, was present at the in
vestigation. Through him it was learn
ed that the Oregon Electric company is
vitully interested in the construction
of the new bridge. He will take up
the matter of assisting wit hthe con
struction with the heads of the eleetrie
system. It is believed that when the
bridge is built the Oregon Electric will
seek a franchise across it for one of
its interurban lines.
After the inspection, the county
courts of Marion and Polk counties ga
thered under a tree at the west end of
tho approach and held an informnl bus
iness meeting at which the replanking
ami repairing was aeciuea upon. Tne
roiK county court expressed itself as
being willing to do all within its pow
er 10 mane tne Driage as sate as pos
sible flu ftnnn fin nnasihta Tt- vni rani.
ized that the present structure had to
do repaired suincientiy to stand until
the new bridge is built, which will ap
proximate two years.
Mast Protect Banks.
It was found on inspection that the
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