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TODAY'S rt' WEATHER .1. 4,400 SUBSCRIBERS (22,000 READEES) DAILY Only CirculatlOB in Salem Guar anteed by the Audit Bureau of Circulations. FULL LEASED WIRE DISPATCHES SPECIAL WILLAMETTE VAL LEY NEWS SERVICE ft- f- H - i diT hi Oregon: Tonight and Friday fair; continued warm; northerly winds. FORTIETH YEAR NO. 236 SALEM, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1917 PRICE TWO CENTS STANDS FTVB CTCNTS HA1G SIR m n mi:;: II 1 LrinE C0VE1G1 ES BLOW qc mnnv 1 I HUM I British Troops Driveillile Deep Into Enemy Trenches, Take Many Prisoners Three German Divisions Churned Into Loblolly by Barrage fire When They Attempted to Re gain Lost Ground Drive Still On This Afternoon 4 : . By YVilliam Phillip Simms, ... (United Press Staff Correspondent) With the British Armies in the field, Oct. 4. British forces have advanced more than a mile deep into the Ger man lines in what looked today to be one of the war's greatest battles. Prisoners already taken reach into four figures. Several villages have already been taken. The drive was still on this afternoon. Haig struck his blow early this morning, the climax to a whirlwind of artillery that for days has beat relentless ly, unceasingly on the German positions. In all respects the blow impresses one as among the biggest, if not the biggest, of all the battles of the greatest of all wars. . Fighting is on an unprecedented scale of magnitude of men, munitions, guns and territory. At Zonnebeke alone, three enemy divisions (NoteA German division ordinarily contains 15,000 men) were ordered to attack and retake ground they lost in the first staggering impact otthe British blow. The Germansthe whole three divisionswere caught in the British barrage. The terrific fire literally churned the poor devils into a bloody loblolly. Battle In Adriatic. Loudon, Oct. 4. British troops start ed successfully early today on another "big push" in Flanders. "East of Ypres we attacked at 6 o'clock this morning on a wide front mid with satisfactory progress," Field Marshal Haig reported. "A number liave ahead been prisonered. " For ton days London has been eager ly awaiting just such news as that con tained iu Haig's message. British Troons Capture All Objectives Today London, Oct. 4. British troons have captured all objectives today on a front I of 10,800 yards, reaching a maximum ! depth of 2500 yards, declared General Maurice, director of operations this af- ternoon in disclosing what appeared to Durinc that time massed British .runs "e,a greatest or have been pouring a concentrated fire : ., "vesj i "Broodseinde is among the villages I'iLK.'!"!. the -War h?s taken today: the Ypres sector P "In the nine "nthB ending Septem- tnolpres sector. ber 30," General Maurice told the Un- The bomba.dment has been Intersper- ited preS9i the British on tlie we9t sod with desperate German assaults. front captured 51,435 men. 332 field The enemy high command realized the heavy guns nnd lost 15,095 men and no tremendous gunfire nresneed another .,,. British drive and has sought In every, .j'n an theatres of war the British manner to mass troops and guns to pre- j captured 72,513 men and 470 guns and vent it. ost 15,005 men in prisoners and no Nearly a week ago correspondents at guns." the British front gave hint of what was. ' preparing. Then a day or so later they General Maurice's statement indi- nrouscd London's expectancy to the cates today's drive is perhaps the highest pitch by mysteriously announc-1 greatest of all the offensive blows yet ing nothing would be reported from aimed at the Herman lines, the British front for 24 hours. It was Sixteen thousand yards would mean during this time, the public figured to- a battle front of more than nine miles, day, that Haig completed all plans for A penetration of 2,500 yards would the drive. ' mean more than a mile gain into the Presumably Haig struck again today German-held territory by the British at tne rassenenuaeio ridge hue the iul,:BB' Ktrategie center of the German front Broodseinde is about half a mile be- in Flanders. It is the key to the German ' ""J Zonnebeke, almost in the center lines from there to the const, the dom- ?f h? Bat Ypres sector. It lies slight inating geographical citadel defending 1 , tllltl &:V Z.:a:".L"? alone which Haig has by his three last .,f ','nmn,,,iti. p offensive blows been steadily advanc er communications with the German . . ., . r ... v. - . lug mwaiu iiic main uciiuuu in iri communications on the fielgian coast bases at Zeebrugge and Ostend. Germans Beport Battle Presumably the nine mile front runs Berlin, via London, Oct. 4. Strong last Btruck appr0ximatelv from Lange fcnghsh attacks on the Flanders front maI.ok to the Comines canal around were reported by the war office in its Hollebeke. statement today, rue statement said: I "The fighting on the Flanders front the southern Germans the brutality and yesterday was similar to thafc of pre ceding days, with the English launch ing stieng attacks in the Ypres district This morning a stubborn battle again developed in Flanders." Fighting of secondary importance was reported in operations on other fronts. Prepare for Air Balds -London, Oct. 4. Formation of a special ministry to return -measure for measure to the Germans for air raids oyer London is the war cabinet 's re sponse to the public demand for repris als, according to the Chronicle today. The special minister, it was asserted, would concentrate British aerial fore- arrogance of Prussianfsm so much as a series of raids over Soutrern German cities specifically announced as repris als for similar excursions over England. ' Nit tl SIGN YOUR NAME FOR THE FLAG WAR TAX TAKES TOLL OF ALL POCKETBOOKS !N AMERICA TODAY OF . Battle in Adriatic Washington, Qct. 4. One Austrian officer was killed, the ship commander was seriously wounded and the imperial flag was shot off an Austrian warship daring an engagement in the Adriatic with the Italian destroyer Auila. According to official cables received today, the damaged eruiser, which sus tained severe shell damage, was able to withdraw into the Cattaro, accom panied by two sister cruisers. An Italian torpedo flotilla and other units of the Italian fleet pursued the es specifically ;or raids over German cities. His duty would be to devise the retreating Austrian ships. The Aquila, maximum amount of f rightfulness ; battered by shellfire and with her nap which could be inflicted upon German 4ha tank ablaze, made an Italian port. cities. - I ' All official announcement on the mat-1 American Schooner Sank ter of reprisals was withheld today. London, Oct. 4 The American schoon Proponents of a vigorous reprisal : er Annie F. Conlon has been' sunk by policy brought a new argument today.' gunfire of a German submarine, the ad It was yiat the German cities most ac-:miralty announced today. The attack cessible for British raiders were in occurred off the Seilly Islands. The southern Germany and the southern ; ercw of eight were landed. German, according to reports, is chaf- j . ing over too much Prussianism in thej Lloyd's lists the Annie F. Conlon as empire. Advocates of British 1 held that nothing could bring home to! (Continued on page tlx. Public Assessment Starts In Sixty Days Now In Effect Washington, Oct. 4. The war tax toll on the American pocketbook began today. Within two months the buying public will be paving over the counter, through ticket windows of various! kinds and almost everywhere else the levies under the $2,535,000,000 revenue bill, now a law. Throughout the land today the high cost of drinking mounted with addi tional taxes on hard, soft and medium . beverages effective immediately. Auto-1 mobile owning, with a tax of three per cent of the sale price, becomes more costly. Pills, patent medicines and chewing gum are hit. Sporting goods, motor boats, estates, inheritances, incomes, war profits and other luxuries of the wealthy are tax ablo immediately. Smoking also may be more costly within 30 3ays, with added taxes on tobacco, cigars and cigarettes, ranging from $1 to $7 a thousand on cigars and from 80 cents to $1.20 a thousand on cigarettes. Even snuff users will suffer. On November 1 also, the tax on freight and express packages one cent for each twenty cents charged be comes effective, together with a ten cent levy on berths and staterooms in Pullman cars. Every telegram, telephone or wireless message costing more than 15 cents after November 1, will bear a five cent tax and taxes of eight cents on each $100 on life insurance and one cent on each dollar of fire insurance also begin. With a tax on "movie" and "legiti mate" theaters after November 1, of one cent on each ten cents admission charged, the eost of "looking them over" either on the screen or in the "pony" row promises to mount. The usual New Year's outbreak will be more expensive with a new tax on table reservations. It will cost a toll equivalent to 10 per cent of the dues to join a club after November 1. Stamp taxes on bonds, promissory notes, bills of sale and playing eards become effective December 1, as dm the one cent tax on parcel post pack ages costing 25 cents or more. The ad ditional one cent on letters is effec tive November 1. Money raising bills being disposed of, congress will adjourn Saturday. House and senate are to pass the ad journment resolution today. The sen ate also will pass the soldiers' and sailors' insurance bill. House adoption of the conference re port on the $8,000,000,000 urgent de ficiency bill is expected today. The senate passed it late yesterday. The civil rights bill, suspending legal action on debts of soldiers and sailors in foreign service may squeeae through. GENERAL PERSHING SEES CAMP LEWIS BOYS SAMMIES GO OVER TOP CAMP TRENCHES SPEND HONEY FOR TOBACCO AND CANDY Commanding G e n e r a 1 I s Two Hundred Thousand Dol Pleased With Showing of His Troops .... By J. W. If egler, (United Press Staff Correspondent.) American Field Headquarters, France, Oct. 4. Major General Pershing watched his Sammies "go over the top" today. He spent the day on a hill top in the training grounds, criti cally viewing his troops to executing practice attack formations. The work was over rougn, muaay practice grouna or through knee-deep yellow acres of wild mustard. The concluding drill was an attack in force. Pershing, General Sibert and three other American generals, with a French general, followed close behind the waves of the American troops, on a battalion frontage. With their grenadiers in front, the Sammies walked slowly behind an im aginary barrage after leaving the trenches. A volley of real grenades reverberated through the valleys as the line reached the first objective the Wilson trench. There a section detached itself the "inoppers up." Others maintaining the same leisurely pace, passed on, with helmeted machine gunners closely fol- (Continued on nage tlx.) ABE MARTIN Mr. and Mrs. Tilferd Moots wish t' thank all who assisted in th' marriage o' ther daughter. Mrs. Lafe Bud's gran father passed away t'day. He had long been prominent in th' business life o' th' eummunitv an' wuz a constant church goer till he got a car. BERNSTORFF'S WELL 0! Inexhaustible Millions For Germany's Propaganda Work Came From This SourceMuch of It Paid to Americans Bolo Pasha and His Intrigues Are Now Under Investi gation by Federal Authorities Many May Be Implicated New York, Oct. 4. The well of gold from which Ger man Ambassador Bernstorff drew apparently inexhausti ble millions lor Germany's propaganda work -nere ana abroad, is believed by New York legal authorities to have been located at last. In statements to the United Press today, the author ities indicated that trace had been found of a pouring out of literally millions of dollars much of it to Americans on Count von Bernstorff 's orders, through the Deutsches bank. Hugo Schmidt, prominent German, banker here, and head of the Deutsches. bank, first men tioned through Bolo Pasha intrigues, is to be examined by those probing the case this afternoon. 1 "Millions upon millions of dollars and securities have passed through the Deutsches bank," said Perley Morse, expert accountant entrusted with investigation of the Bolo Pasha and other intrigues. "If the source and destination of these sums and secur ities became known, the information would no doubt be valuable for, the apprehension of many man closely con nected with Germany." lars Monthly Is Cost to 30,000 Soldiers Camp Lewis, Tacoma, Wash., Oct. 4 Talk ubout gum-chewing stenograph ers and chocolate-nibbling loungs liz zards the Sammies at Camp Lewis have them all backed off the map. The monthly candy and tobacco mon ey spent by the 30,000 men in camp amounts to approximately $200,000. The consumption of candy ti, this cantonment almost exceeds the amount of army beef that the men ''put away" each day, according to the dealers who are clustered about the entrance to the camp. Most of the little shops do not close until late at night and from the time the soldiers are released from duty ear ly in the evening until taps at night, the clerks are busy selling candy, to bacco, chewing gum, and hot dogs, and hamburgers. Almost all of the regiments, trains and units have post exchanges now where the profits aro turned over to the men to establish a mess fund. "Fifteen thousand bars of candy have been sold at my exchange since the first quota of men arrived," said Lieutenant E. B. Block, in chargo of the 340th field artillery store, yester day, "while we have distributed 5,000 packs of one brand of cigarettes alone." There are only 1,400 men in the 346th but the stock carried by the exchange has a value of $10,000 most of which is invested in candy and tobacco, al though the exchange carries a general line of most everything, from hardware to soft pillows. ; Star Pitcher In Camp. . Camp Lewis, Tacoma, Wash, Oct. 4. "Say bo, have you got a lump of good butter and a spoonful of sugar on yon!" This is the way Eddie Klein, one time shining light of the Bt. Louis Na tional league team and pitcher on the Seattle and Tacoma nines greeted a visitor yesterday. Klein is now Pri vate Klein, headquarters company. Eddie sure misses his little olA "three times a day at the best hotel." "If they would only give me some butter I wouldn't mind it so much," he said, "but I don't like bread with out something to make it go down easy. ' ' Eddie Ss playing a lot of baseball, although he has been forced to lay off for the last few days because of a sore arm due to the innoeulation for typhoid the men of his company re ceived this week. He says he likes army life well enough, barring the fact that there are only three mail deliveries a day and no butter on the bread. His mail, according to his bnnk mates, mostly comes in scented en velopes and i delivered by the bushel. The widest possible Bearch for just this information Is now under way by New York authorities. Officials indi cated today that the'new government in quisitorial powers conferred in the trad ing with the enemy act might be turn ed over for the president exclusively toward running down the "leads" al ready uncovered in the Deutsches bank. "A thorough investigation of the books and dealings of the Deutsches bank and the activity of Hugo Schmidt offers an unlimited field for the Unit ed States authorities which has not been exploited," said Attorney General Lewis of New York today. Lewis has been specifically entrusted with the preliminary investigation by the state and the government, as well as by the French ambassador, who is interested in the matter because of the complicity of Bolo Pasha. Investigation searching i "We a.e leaving no stones unturn ml " Albert Becker, dermtv attorney general, told the United Press, "to un cover the whole matter and have found many crossing trails. A report of all information we obtain- regarding other financial transactions of a suspicious character is being made directly to Washington. It was not definitely dis closed today whether Attorney Gener al Lewis has been authorized to go fur ther than investigate the Bolo Pasha intriguing, which he formally disclos ed last night. This showed that Bern storff, through financial transfers, clev erly plonked t hrouirh the JJeutscnes bank, had paid Bolo Pasha nearly $1, 800,000 for influencing the French press "The system of German propaganda needed a strong financial backing,". Perley Morse said. "The best way or tracing the vholo scheme iu my mind, is through tho money end." What makes the investigation of im mediate and prime importance as a war measure is tho belief hinted at by offi cials today that Bernstorff was only one of activa heads of the German es pionage and propaganda system. Through full investigation, it is hoped that other agents may be unearthed. French Kept Informed i Attorney General Lewis is examining many witnesses at his headunrters in the Murray Hill hotel. Home of this testimony is directly in line with the Bolo Pasha case and is being transmit ted to the French government for use against the Levantine agent, now held in strict eustody at Paris. Other wit nesses, it became known, are being cross examined for the purpose of eliciting information of all the Deutsches bank transactions. Among those of the latter class who were expectctt to De examin ed was Hugo Schmidt himself. Lewis refused to say what Schmidt would De questioned about. Other officials today pointed out that the selection of a banking institution as me ioumaiu ui German gold from which streams were n tw divnrted for nronaeanda was ex ceedingly clever, because behind the screen of the banks heavy ousiness m trail would be lost. N BEEN8TORFF DICTATED SELECTION OF BISHOF New Turk, Oct. 4. How Am bassador Bernstorff urged the choice of Daniel Cohalan, cousin to New York Supreme Court Justiee Cohalan, as bishop of Cork, in a letter to the German foreign office, dated August 23, 1916, was related In a London dispatch printed today in the Evening World. Daniel Cohalan was ultimate ly made bishop of Cork. His cousin, the justice, was named in the rocent state department's expose of the Von Igel pnpera as having played a prominent part in negotiations with Germany with regard to aiding the Irish revolt. "This revelation of German activity at tho Vatican to influ ence, in itB supposed interest, the election of an Irish bishop, has naturally caused consider able of a sensation here," the London dispatch stated. "It is read in connection with the pope's peace moves and also in . relation to the efforts being made among English Catholics to obtain support for tho pacif ist Intentions of his holiness. Hearst la Implicated New York, Oct. 4. Former German Ambassador Bernstorff 's whole corrup tion fund may be revealed in investiga tions under way in New York today (Continued OH faga BlX.) Wireless Messages Show Berlin Foreign Office Was Sending Money to America New York, Oct. 4. The unlimited flow of gold with which Ambassador Bernstorff carried oil his propaganda 2 Criguo against tho Unted St. tea which America and Germany were still peace, was revealed this ernoon as having its source direct from the Berlin foreign office. This revelation camo direct on tie heels of disclosures which sh owed how Bolo Pasha, now imprisoned in Franco oV a traitor, came to this country to carry on his work of Influencing news papers in behalf of Germany. 1 Hugo Schmidt, resident agent of the Deutsches bank of Berlin, PPerd f ore Attorney General Lewis of New York Btlt? ir response to a subpoena this afternoon and 'l h ponies of wireless messages he had ex 'changed with the bank in Berlin. These messages showed the code for Bern "Fred Hoomen." Berlin eyThf S mesTge surrendered 'e- nt via Sayville by Krto thebank in Berlin dated Marca nosal' for Charles Gled- bUThe answer, dated March ; "Beplying your cable, GledhJl, treq XContiaoed on pago .)