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FORTIETH YEAR NO. 224
SALEM, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1917
PRICE TWO CENTS STANDS FIVE CENTS
Grand Offensive Movement Follows Intensive Artillery Fire
On Belgian Front-General Haig Reports First Objectives
Gained In Initial PushGerman Spy Caused Death of
Nine Canadian Students by Tampering With Machines
in Training Camp Pr j? e
(By William Philips Simms) s"
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(United Press Staff Corresponds sl '
With the British Armies Afield, f
3
0. British troops went forward tii
mii uiiuiiut great orrensive centei,
ever the Yprcs-Menin road.
Reports to headquarters as this
dispatched declare all .first objectivi
liave been token.
It is believed the German losses wort
unusually heavy. Great masses of troops
oneentvated for the British attack
long advertised by a drum fire propar
ntion were caught under a hail of
chells from the British batteries.
Te offensive blow of todav was over
a long; front. It was timed to follow an
.rtillery preparation of tremendous volume.
CHINA MAY SEND
TROOPS TO FRENCH FRONT
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Tokio, Sept., 20. China is ex
pected shortly to decide on the
sending of 20,000 troops to the
French front, according to a
dispatch today to Nichi Nichi.
' China Needs Money.
San Francisco, Sept. 20.
million Chinese troops on
fighting front in France,
Orient 's contribution to
Ten
the.
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the
cause or aemocrnev is m pros
pect, if the United States will
finance China's part in the war,
Dr. Ng Poon Chew, Chinese
statesman and editor, declared
today. If China had the money
lie said, nhe could move troops
at the rate of 2.10,000 in nine
days ncross the Siberian railroad
into Russia.
Haig's Official Report.
London, Sept. 50. British troops
drove forward east of Ypres todav in
n strong attack over an extended front.
Field Marshal Haig's report said:.
"East of pres wo attacked at. 5:40j
this morning en a wide front. We made!
satisfactory rrogress and some valuable!
positions were captured." inflicted by German troops against a
l-'or the past week British (runs hnc violent i' reuch assault on the east banl
lieen pouring r tremendous artillery fire!of Mouse, today's official statement
on German positions throughout the ; asserted.
whole Yrres sector. Last nigt's Berlin
report labelled this artillery as "drum
fire" presaging an infantrv drive. It
Rumanians Advance.
Petrograd, Sept. 18. Rumanians suc-
Teached an intensity of destruetiveness : eessfully continued their offensive in
lute last nieht, just before the British
troops "went over."
The sector east of Ypres, mentioned
liv Haig as that part of the line where
the BritisTi offensive struck, includes
Grezenberg, Westhoek and Hooge
ground taken in the previous British of
fensive in August.
Spy Caused Nine Deaths.
New York. Sept. 20. Xino Canadian
student aviators at Camp Borden went
to their deathse recently through the
work of a German spy in the camp, ac
cording to a story published today by
the New York World.
The spy, according to the WorUl 's in
formant enlisted in the corps and filed
certain control wires until they were
lit the breaking point. He was a Ger
man, but spoke English fluently, and
trained admission to the camp through
a false story and a good knowledge of
mechanics.
The spjyit was said, was discovered.
His fate is not known.
Moldavia today, the official report as
serted,
MISS KINNEY INSANE
Portland, Or., Sept. 20. Alleged to
have sent scores of postcards slander
ing President Wilson through tho mails
Miss Harriet Kinney, daughter of M.
.T. Kinney, wealthy tinibernian will be
sent to the state hospital for the in
sane today or tomorrow. She has been
Jound insane.
SENATE ADOPTS REPORT
Washington, Sept. 20. The somite
today adopted the conference report on
the $1 1,538,000,000 oond bill. The
houso is expected to agree to the re
port tomorrow.
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REMEMBER, MY BOY, THIS IS OUR WAR
TROOPS POURING INTO
CAMP LEWIS IN STREAM
FROMALLNORTHWESl
Camp Lewis, Tacoma, Wash., Sept. 20 trains begin arriving from California
noons oi me secona ouota or the
draft army continued to pour into this
cantonment today in an almost contin
uous stream, coming from points in
Oregon, Idaho and Washington. Fif
teen nunurea men were expected dur
ing the day, 515 of these being from
Seattle.
On Friday and Saturday when the
American -Schosner Sunk.
Washington, Sept. 20. Te unarmed
American schooner Ann J. Trainer was
Mink September 16, a consular telegram
to the state department reported today.
The. crew of seven men were saved.
A'o details were received.
American Killed.
London, Sept. 20. Harry Simms, a
resident of Philadelphia, was among
four killed of those aboard a British
boat torpedoed a week ago, it was an
nounced today.
No further details were made public.
between 4000 and G000 a dav will be
received. Those in charge here now be
lieve that it will be ten days before
all the men are in.
The portal through which the select
ed men enter at Camp Lewis resembles
tho eutranco to a county fair grounds,
with the exception that the gate keep
ers are armed with revolvers and there
is a row of receiving officers at one
end of the receiving shed. From the re
ceiving shed they are marched in col
umns, of two to a tent where they are
examined for contagious diseases. From
there they inarch in column to their
barracks and are turned over to their
company commanders. Mothers, sisters
End other relatives lined tho receiving
I sued today and watched as the men gave
- "" " i their names to the officers.
,t, . , . .. . , . - . . Barbers are in great demand at the
rr , f l ! m 6 Pros"ent r.ro,te, I"cr to tamp and those who can qualify in
(United Press Staff Correspondent) tho government in. which he mention- this line will be held in high esteem.
Washington, Sept. 20. Major W. A. 3 certain ma' who purported to have ' Cooks are also great lv desired. Blankets
Starrett, upon whose shoulders the bur-' ,'fZ7 ' the Cm' 8,ld bedui8 'e " incoming
den of building America's sixteen draft "It was found that the , f i. 1 If.e" B? "00lB.: S.,"y,rea,C'' b"rac,i8' ?
bidding out of Gf the new sc'ldiers is assured.
no more conception i
Keeping Graft Out of
Federal Cantonment Camps
SETTLEMENT OF SAN
FRANCISCO STRIKE
IS BELIEVED NEAR
Portland Looks For Speedy
Labor PeaceSeattle
Conditions Worse
GERMl AGENTS CAUSED
SSIAN ARMY MUTINY
United Press Correspondent Tells of Awful Scenes Enacted
at VibaryOfficers Murdered by Soldiers Because of
False Reports Spread by Enemy's Agents- Shepherd,
Cabling From Stockholm, Tells of Scenes of Anarchy
and Bloodshed During Past Week
STRIKERS NOT EXEMPT
Portland, Or., Sept. 20 Strik
ing shipbuilders of military
age arc not exempt from con
scription, United States Attor
ney Clarence Reamcs held to
day. Keamcs took the stand that
the men voluntarily quit their
jobs aud were not now engaged
in on essential war time in
Physicians at Front.
London, Sept. 20. Arrival of the
first group of American civilian physi--iu:i
id aid in hospital work was an
lmmiced teday. They were alleted to
1'i'spitnls here and in the provinces.
fiimiV pnil tntl mimt nnitina full rwln.. J! . ..... &-
7. . T x""H' iviv uue lures were rroin oroKers
uiuu lor ii.e umieu iress tne pre-jthin air who had
cuiuums ins committee tooK to pre-1 of this thing than ". Here the offi-
vent graft of favoritism creeping intojcinl threw up his hands. "This man
thf,,work; . I with the unbelievable low price said he
On the committee," said Major i would set the price for the whole ter
Starrett, "were C. W. Lundoff of the'ritory involved at $20. 'Don't do that,'
Crowell, Lundoff, Little company, of said the representative of the territory,
Cleveland; M. C. Little, general man-'you will rui-.i our people.' In that one
ager of the Aberthaw Construction com-j discussion the low priced man showed
pany of Boston and Frederick Law Olm-' how foolish he was. When it came to
Troops For Menlo Park.
San Francipco, Sept. 20. Five in
fantry and three cavalry regiments
have been ordered to Cam) Fremont at
Menlo Park, it was announced by the
western army department headquarters
today, indicating that San Francisco
has won its fight for the retention of
Gerrnnn Official Report.
Berlin, Sept. 17. Heavy losses were
s!end. When we i it ,iuni.,ti,. ' ,i. . . , " mp as r. part or tne army estan
he contracts Lundoff and Tutthy dealing with brokers who thought they Z,ih
ise they were contractor withdrew could make a strike with the govern-1 Y" tr
e has withdrawn his concern ab-! ment. ,'.
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ment. The Eighth, Twelfth, Thir-
Sixtv becoiul and Sixty Thud
ment. ' " .
He won't t,nw.h a ..i,t . i mi . ... s'dio and tne iwentv fourth and iwen-
He won t touch a government , "The average price of the four hil-ty Kifth cavalrv r.-giments from Fort
. o " o , l"0ccanu,n- i Kussell, Wvo., and the fifteenth cavalrv
from the Philippines are the regiments
on the
becau
Tuttl
colutelv,
contract.
"Ohnstead and I called
Metcalf of Boston and
San Francisco, Sept. 20. Although
the lodcral agents here believe settle
ment of the strike of ironworkers
which has tied up shipbuilding on San
Francisco bay may come at any hour,
no announcement had come tip to noon
from tho conference of representatives
of all parties concerned who are seek
ing an adjustment.
The employes indorse the statement of
.lames I
(By William O. Shepherd)
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
(Copyright 1&17, by the United rPess)
Stockholm, Sept., 20. German agents
made Viborg, a city of Finland, not a
hundred miles from Petrograd, a place
of horror.
Loyal Kusi.ian soldiers threw ten of
their ofifecri, including two generals,
into the river and then shot at them un
til all-but oni disappeared in the swirl
ing waters.
This one, a colonel, clambered up the
bank, only to be branded by one of his
men.
Another officer was found in his
home aud his head half severed. Still
another was found lynched in a woods.
The German agents had spread ru
mors that Premier Kerensky, than at
bay becauso of Komiloff's "successful
rebellion" had requested troops of Gen
eral Vassiluf, commander general of Fin
land, to ant in defense of Petrograd
and mat vassiluf had refused bis ap
peal and ins orders.
The story was absolutely untrue.
But the soldiers rose in mutiny, de
manding that the democracy be defend
od.
As the loytlty of tho bulk of the
army has again been demonstrated, 1
am able today to toll of the scenes of
terror that accompanied last week's cri
sis.
Members of the workmen's and sol
diers' council claim that Korniloff ex
ecuteu an entire regiment of his men
at Tarnopol. During the revolt many
or. the troops turned, the tables and exe
cuted their officers.
When I went to the cable office and
filed my dispatch to the United Press
that the Komilorf revolt has been
crushed, the censor remarked:
"Tho lives of his officers are not
worth a cent if that is true."
The Viborg horror occurred one week
ago today. The Uerman-iuspired story
spread like wilunre among tho troops.
They were moved to the auger almost
of insanity. They mutinied and stulkod
forth to seize their officers. Many were
thrown instantly into prison.
Vassiluf himself with nine others
all high army officers, including Gen
eral Oruofski aud Colonel Karenius
were seized.
These ten the infuriated soldiers drag
ged to the Port Abo bridge. There they
threw them into the water. And while
they Bwam desperately for tho shore,
Kussian soldiers fired' at their helpless
officers.
A great crowd gathered. Women faint
ed at the sickening cruelty. A panic en
sued on the packed bridge and many
were injured in trantic struggles to
reach the banks again.
For half an hour this target practice
at tho officers continued. Then most
of them were either killed, overcome
with their wounds, or exhausted by
their efforts to keep afloat.
In some incredible way Colonel Kare
nius managed to reach the pier. There
ho climbed up. A group of infuriated
soldiers confronted hiin. He. droit his
revolver and fired, killing several men.
Then a great Kussian soldier struck out
his brains with an iron rod.
I personam visited lborg on inv
ARGENTINES ARE
WILDLY EXCITED AS
Public Receives News of
Senate Action with Great
Demonstration
(By Charles P. Stewart)
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
Buenos Aires, Sept. 20. Whether Ar
gentine will break with Germany de
pends in largo measure on the vote of
the house of representatives today. Tho
overwhelming senate vote for a diplo
matic rupture was expected to be re
flected in tho decision of th lowr
lions.
Buenos Aires received the news of the
senate's 23 to 1 decision in favor, of
severance of relations with Germany,
in excited demonstrations. The city
authorities, apprised of the vote,
promptly stationed all reserves in tho
downtown Btreets so that disorder was
practically eliminated. The general pub
lic's exictement in the situation wa
attested by great crowds on all down
town streets until a late hour last night-,
and a jam of excitedly curious whick
assembled early today. ,
There was no doubt but that the ad
ministrution was profoundly astonished
by the almost unanimous vote in the
senate for a break with Germany. Pres
ident Irigoycn and his advisers hava
steadily insisted on full neutrality.
The 23 to 1 vote may upset their cal
culations, particularly if anything like
that majority is attained in the vote of
the lower house.
In some circles today it was point
ed out that President Irigoycn nas it
in his power to override even the decis
ion of both houses by exercise of his
veto against a break.
Tension in the city was aggravated
today by imminence of a general Btrika
on all Argentine railways.
GERMAN CODE FUTILE.
Ackerson of the federal shin-
board that a settlement i near, but; way to Stockholm. The details as writ
tins view is apparently not shared bf i,. ,mu .. tt,.at,..l l.v ,,,,, ,.r.,,,M
Leonard ! ments was 20.50. Four billion foot rpn.
Mi
and George F. Fuller ; resents the enuntrv'a nninnt f- o h.,in .1
of Xew York, not to be confused with year." . ailected,
me oeorge a. r uner -.onstructioii com-, Turing to the matter of bonuses and
pany. We were the committee that made penalties for the contractors Major
ana reviewed tne list Starrett said: "Th s in one of tl.o cr,-ot
these decisions
of contractors.'.'
"With regard to his personal part
in the work, Major Starrett said:
--mere is roo muca misunderstand-1 agreed that if he got his work done
ing about the name of Starrett flying; at a certain time we would pay him so
around the country. I was educated at , much extra, or if he did not finish at a
the University of Michigan and when j certain time we would deduct so much
Playing at War.
San Francisco, Kept. 20. Six hund
red men of tho first battalion of the
I came out 1 was employed bv the
George A. Fuller company and work
ed along with them for several years.
Iu 1900 with my brother and a man
named Thompson we formed the
Thompson-Slarrett company. In 1913 I
quit the company, as had" my brother,
sold all my interest in it and joined my
brother in the practice of architecture.
That is my business."
A high government official said today
that' irresponsible and disgruntled per
sons seem to have been responsible for!
. - . . ... . .. , MISU UlVll Ul
; ' Vle contracting presidio training camp doggedly held
business. We decided against it. Suppose jtheir fir8t iiUe ?rou.ue8 toaay ainlit
we had given one man a contract and tllR imBrl, iv,w m,,v;,; th-
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peninsula troin nan Mateo.
The men moved into the trenches this
morning after a night during which
much electricitv was consumed while
orders covering the duty of platoon com
manders at the front were studied.
day from his earned percentaee. If wa
had had such a system on these canton
ments see what would have happened.
We would have had an appeal to the
man 's money making instinct, not to
his patriotism. He would have been
working for a bonus on an arbitrary
contract to which he could not have ad
ded or subtracted them.
"We have had to change contracts
and plans all the way along. If we had
had the bonus system the contractors
would have said: 'This is not the work
Iron Trades Council officials. M. J.
Mi-Guire of the boilerniakers union de
clared today that he could see no signs
of an immediate settlement.
It is believed by union men that
Ackerson 's statements of an approach
ing settlement refer only to shipbuild
ing trade and do not take into consid
eration the fact that many thousand
men not engaged in shipbuilding are
on strike.
I tumors of graft and crookedness in the II contracted to do, so vou must extend
building of the camps. "I will discuss I my time.' We could not"shorten the time
mat in a verr ramiiiar way," said the ! under any circumstances You see how
official, "using as an instance the work j the government's hands would have
or tne nimoer committee which deserv-ibeen tied under that system!"
VI t. a i . -Jed the hiKhest praise. "Some officials' XOTE: Tomorrow 'there will be a
-..- ,.,.,r u.,a s ir spun tnougnt tne committee was pavinir too storv te nu of th actual rm-w v.n,i
nteresting
material
. . - . uvo. vuguiautc i.seu, uim Kii.nioyea ana otner aerans.
. iX i-i 7 Y lnoUKnt lne oommmee wa payng too.story tolling of the actual work t
r,L, I 'vhf I e 1" "'"rinuch for lumber. The talk got to the: ing the camps and giving int
I, Z tV.Z'n iiTi vl1'' Whcre one of our om-i figures as to the amount of .
has' kd fer a demit mercial organizations took cognizance Used, men .employed and other
Portland German Paper
Forced to Suspend
Portland, Or., Sept. 20. The Port
land Deutsche Zeitung today suspend
ed publication and in its place wiir ap
pear the Portland American, printed
in English exclusively.
German employes, including Max
Lucke, editor, and Martin Dudel, tele
graph editor, have been discharged.
Only American citizens will be employ
ed by the American.
A. E. Kerr, publisher, declared in an
editorial announcement that he was in
formed the government intended to
suppress the paper unless it discontin
ued publication of matter in the Ger
man language.
Portland Scents Peace
Portland, Or., Sept. 20. Peace seem
ed near today in the Portland shipyard
strike, which has tied up nine plants
and stopped construction on eighty
wooden snips.
G. Y. Harry, federal mediator, after
a series of conferences with union lead
ers and shipbuilding company officials
announced today he considered the
Btrike near an ad justment. He predict
ed the men would be back to work
either the bitter part of this week or
the first of next. He declined to out
line the basis of the proposed settle
ment.
Incidentally, operators are putting
their yards in shape to resume work
Monday, it became known. They, too,
are confident that the strike will be
ended within a few days.
Today Baw still a further rush of
men back to work at the Vancouver,
Wash-, yards of the Standifer company
The company of troops at Astoria
has the situation there well in hand
and further trouble is not feared.
Seattle (8 Chaotic
Seattle, Wash., Sept. iO. Within
three or four days, if settlement is not
made sooner of the sympathetic strike
witnesses. I saw troops dredging the
river undernvath the bridge, seeking
the bodies of the officers they had mur
dered. They had recovered seven bodies.
One colonel, I was told, was found at
his home, dining with his family, by a
group of soldiers, half insane with anger
at tho German-inspired report of the
officers' alleged refusal to aid Keren
sky. The colonel was seized anil his
iieck half severad as he stood before
his family.
Colonel Djunin of the .Cossacks, was
fn,i ,i...,,i ;.. ti, ,v,,i. ; l ... 1 i,
IdierB another victim of German agents
preying on the liussiun troops' loyalty
to Kerensky.
EUSSIAN AMBASSADOR
OPTIMISTIC IN REPORT
Washington. Sept., 20 That the Rus
sian republic may demand the respect
and confidence of the United States
more than ever before is the purpose of
a formal report by Ahibassador Bak
hmetieff to Secretary Lansing today.
The outstanding feature of the Russian
statement to this government are:
Russia's future is secure.
Her armv, considered an incalculable
factor before the Korniloff revolt, is
now the strongest bulwark of the re
public.
The bolsheviki partv, favoring im
mediate international peace negotiations
have reached the zenith of its power,
after being temporarily strengthen
ed by concessions from Kerensky dur
ing the recent crisis.
The Pan-Russian soldiers and work
men convention in Petrograd Sunday
(By J. W. T. Mason)
(Written lor the United Press)
New York. Sept. 20. Sweden 's ef
forts to fix upon the United States res
ponsibility for transmitting Von Bern
storff's coded diplomatic correspon
dence to Berlin, before America entered
the war, directs (attention to the fact
that the German government seems un
I'hle to use a code which United States
experts cannot read.
It is the custom of all countries, par
ticularly in war times, to change their
diplomatic codes automatically every
few months. This is done as a precau
tionary measure. The United States ap
parently has been able to decipher at
least three sets of German official cor
respondence in Hi mouths. Tho recom
mendation or a German decoration for
the Swedish charge d' affairs ill Mex
ico was made in March 1!)16; the Ger
man government's instructions to its
Mexican minister to involve Mexico in
war with America occurred in January,
1 i 17, and the Luxburg dispatches from
Buenos Aires were scut in May and
July, 1917.
It is reasonable to suppose that le
changes, if not more, were mado in th
tween March, 1910, and July, 1917, tnreo
(ierman official cipher. Yet the United
States' secrei, service caught each ex
change. The kaiser cannot be sure that th
United States is not able to decipher
scores of other messages, whoso con
tents have not been revealed. Indec
the probability is that German diplc-
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l THE WEATHER ;
Oregon: Tonight
and Friday fair,
cooler cast ior
Friday; gentle
southerly winds.
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