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TODAY'S WEATHER 4,400 SUBSCRIBERS full K to K y rfitfr tH C 7 'fffi '-3 l PATCHES- VUliC SUlUU lU J JK f niL' JS H ijl i H J j I ' SPECIAL WILLAMETTE VAL- ' .V' VAjiOtL . "'-1 U "S easterly wind, - ! LEY NEWS BEBVICE . JJJjSSj , & " : -. ': - ' FOKTIETH YEAR NO. 277 , SALEM, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1917 PRICE TWO CENTS wa"c VISIT TO FRONT LINE TRENCHES OF ; THE UJ. ARMY United Press Correspondent Tells How Sammies Guard Their Line SNIPING AND ARTILLERY FIRING OCCUPIES TIME Good Duck Pond Lies Midway Acr6ss No Man's Land Before Them By J. W. Pegltr (United Press Etiiff correspondent) With the AnuHJan (battalions in the Front Line. Trenches, France, Nov. 21. A zig-zagging trench, walled' iu vith hand woven twigs, khaki clad Sammies standing on the firing step this is America's first line. It winds like a brown scar across the faeo of the hill. Sammies, peering cau tiously over the parapet, have au un obstructed view across a valley to where the Bocho is sulking in his own front lino trenches. America's; ifront line in the land branch of tho battle for democracy nil x just; a plain uiten. to the unini tiated" it is a labyrinth of Ovists and turns and holes and mounds. Hut to Kaimmy it is as simple as "Main street back homo." He knows every dugout, every traverse, every listening post. .Standing on the fire step at one place in the trench beside a Nebraska soldier, I strained my eyes across iJenth Valley, where the enemy holds forth. It was a dank, tangled tarn. Weeds run wild for three years lux uriated there. A battered village stands midway, awaiting the day of reclamation. In front of a -smashed 'farmhouse one (Continued on nage six.) PAUL RIKGLE WRITES I LOI Salem Boy Likes Climate Better As He Gets Ac customed To It Phil Kingle is one of the boys of Company M at Camp Mills,' who are learning a lot about the real eastern climate on Long Island. He writes in ipart to his folks in Salem as follows: "it is -somewhat warmer here and we arc getting somewhat acclimated so that wo feel much better than when we first arrived. So far I have not beea able to go to New York City which is only 24 miles away, but I sure am going if I get a chance. "The San Diego is in the harbor now and there are a lot of Salem bovs n it. Henry Radcliffe, Clifford Smart. Ioc Mercer's son Ralph Mercer and the two Hitchcock boys who used to live in North Salem i got to see as they came down to the camp. They are all fino and expect to convoy troops across in several days. ''There is a Pingle in a company from 'McMinnville and 1 can't help but think he is some relation of ours. They tell me he is a Moose but so far I have not looked him up. "Yes, I would like vorv much to get the Capital Jonrnal and I know the boys would surely enjoy it. I have re ceived a promotion to that of private of the first class and I will draw $3 a month more jand get to h.we charge of the squad once in a while when the corporal i-s away. You .must address my letters as "private" as it is a rooky stunt to have "private first class" smeared on the envelope. ''I am going to try and land a eor poralship sometime, but the captain likes to have them over twenty so it will be pretty hard. "Sergeant Melnturff, Sergeant AI ford and Sergeant Wallace were all pro moted to lieutenants and they will be fine offjre-ra. We -will have six of . ficers now instead of three one cap tain, two first lieutenants and three cecond lieutenants for a company of ."0 men. "We are sure doing some tall drilling vow from 7 until 11:30 and from 1 un til 4:."!0. ard we are on the go all the time vta can bet." RUSSIAN MOVE TOWARD GERMAN PEACEJS BEGUN Notice Sent to Socialist Con vention In Session at Dresden TANGLE AT PETROGRAD IS WORSE THAN EVER Socialists Refuse to Help Form Government For Ex tremist Faction Amsterdam, Nov. 21. Formal propos als oi an international peace among warring nations were made by the Rus sian Bolsheviki representative! at Stockholm in greetings sent a socialist mass meeting in Dresden, aecordinj to word, received here today. ' ' The Kusisan workmen 's and soldiers council snatched power from those who have been permitting peace revolutions and social aims to lapse," the message asserted. ' ' We now propose immediate negotia tions for a peace without annexations and without indemnities, on the basis or tiie rignt ol nations to decide their own destiny. ' ' However, Russian capitalistic for ces will oppose an international peace. There is still a long struggle, which can only end victoriously by joint interna tional action of the proletariat." Angling For Peace. London, Nov. 21. Russia may be ang ling for peace, according to dispatches received today from Scandinavian sour ces. They reported the "Bolsheviki Max amilists, Minimalist, socialist and mod erate parties of the nation almost united in the belief that only complete with drawal from the war and concentration of all efforts on internal affairs can re store order in Russia. The tangle still continued at Petro grad, according to latest advices. All endeavors for a compromise or coalition government have failed. Kerensky's whereabouts are still unknown. Scores of reports were received at Swedish cities about him one that he had committed suicide. None was auth enticated. " Control Second Army. Petrograd, Nov. 21. The Soviet's revolutionary committee today pro claimed its "control over the Russian second army." The Russian second army was last reported in the great Russian retreat from around Taruopol last summer. Its panic and the wholesale desertions of its soldiers started the retreat in this section. Socialists Disagree. Petrograd, Nov. 21. Maximalist lead ers today announced the rupture of ne gotiations with the moderate socialists party. It was reported a compromise government was being negotiated be tween the Bolsheviki and the socialist revolutionaries of the left wing. 50c sjc sfc Jc jc sc jc sfc sfc sfc sfc sfc ABE MARTIN I Tlier's a lot o' girls eittin' bv in short skirts that were given up as hope les" a eouple o' vears aeo. Th' best sub stitute fer coal is th' five-cent the ater. slit IT Arthur Henderson, Former Labor Member of Cabinet Tells War Aims of British Note In tho following remarkable interview, sotting forth British war aims, Arthur Henderson, former labor member of the Lloyd George cabinet, and spokesman for British trades un ionism, emphasized a point generally overlooked in this, country. He reveals the importance attaching in Europe to the secondary offensive tho polit ical offonsive launched by President Wilson against Hohenzollernisra in his war declaration speech. Dispatches from France during the past few days have revealed the extent to which the campaign for the " domocratizatfbn of Germany is being pushed from that angle and through Switzerland. (Signed) THE EDITOR. By Lowell Mellett j (United Press staff correspondent) i London, Nov. 21. Tho allies shoulfl not abandon their political offensive j against Germany, according to ArYiur endorson, bocause in many respect it is the most dangerous offensive the house of Hohenzollein has to face. Henderson, as leader of the labor par- J ty, has aligned with him some tour : and a half million voters, through the new coalition of his party and the co operative movement. "Look at this item in tho paper," said tho labor leader. The item reported the address of the crown prince to the latest batch of German boys brought -to the western front to join their fathers and broth ers. t. : "There are powers at work attempt ing to sow discord botwecn the Gor man people' and their soverign, know ing Germany otherwise is invincible," said the crown prince. "It is your work also to prevent this," and more of the same. . "Of course. ' Germany is not 'oth erwise invincible,' " said Henderson. "The crown prince protends not to fear the allies' military efforts, but he shows a great concern regarding their ability to make a wide breach by other means between the kaiser and his people. The real position is 'fhat the German kaiser and his high com mand realize that their military plans have failed. They are now at pains to prevent their military failure leading to a political upheaval at home. 'Military victory is not the tinal aim of the allies. It is a means toMfn end. It is ought in order to enable" ITALIANS HOLDING PiAVE LINE BUT MAY BE FORCED BACK French and British Forces Have Not Yet Been Brought Into Action By John H. Hearley (United Press staff correspondent) Rome, Nov. 21. Bocause of the dis advantageous battle ground offered along the Piave river, a further strate gic retirement of Italian forces may be necessary, according to reliable in formation today. As yet none of the French and Brit ish reinforcements have gone into ac tion. The Italian troops single hand edly are bearing the full burden of the Teutonic assault. They .are holding tinn are holding firm and mtlicting terrible casualties on the enemy. Their morale is the best probably it has ever been. So also is tho spirit here in Rome. The public supports the war as never before. All fruits of Italy's two years of strife have now been swept away; a dread enemy reaches ever forward seeking her most treasured possessions of art and industry. But the internal dissension which Germany craftily hoped to start has never appeared. The enemy won his first blow by treachery in the army and in the civ ilian ,iopulation, then the audtfou overwhelming spectacle of the perfect ly equipped Teutonic armies made tHo Italian officers lose their heads- Ger many played for a revolution in .Italy like that she aided in Russia. She will never attain that hope. Germans Attack in Masses With the Italian Armies, Nov. 21. All pre-cenceived ideas that the Teu tons are husbanding their resources of manpower are refuted in the great bat tle along the Piave river. The same tactics of seeking to smotb er their objectives iB a flood of pack ed humanity, which Germany used ear ly in the war, are those which the Ger- (Continued on page three) them to achiove the sort of peace; which theyconceive to be essential to prevent any future recurrence of the present awful struggle and to securo tho end of the war for all time; a peace which will recognize the rights of peoples to dispose of themselves as they think best, and will make the world safe) for djomocraey, 1a peace which will solve all old grievances with out creating new ones and which will 'securo just recompense for the innr.: 'cent victims of the foul wrongs per jpctrated by German militarism during Ithe war. Those are, broadly, the aims of the allies, and it seems to me that to sup plement military effort by the politic al weapon in order more quickly to achieve such an honorable and lasting peace would not weaken the allios' po sition, but would strengthen it. " Wo are afr war with the kaiser and kaiserism and personally I do not want to see any peace made with kais erism. If the peace settlement is to have any irosp((ct( cjf durability "it must be made witn the German people and not with the kaiser. "President Wilson, who has a pro found knowledge of real politics, and whose utterances come nearer to the ideals ct' democracy than those of any oilier allied statesman, has seen the possibilities of the use of the political weapon in this war apd ho has cour ageously defined . important diiicr ence between the Gerloian peoplo and its autocratic rulers. In this differen tiation, I fully concur with President Wilson and I strongly advocate a po litical offensive in order to1 widen the breach between 'kaisctvsm: and . the German people. ','By a 'political offensive;, ' I do not mean that Groat- Britain should resort to the use of unscrupulous diplomatia prastices, as Germany has done. Tho British people would not tolerate them But. I do sav that they should make a wise and discriminate use of legiti mate political methods, which are open and above beard and which mean elim ination of secret diplomacy." "At present," he continued, "tho allies are negotiating with the kaiser's servants. All the speeches made by the German chancellor tfnd replied to by ployment or' open political means to bring about a settlement of the war. (Continued on pag' two.) HALO'S LAST BLOW GREATEST SURPRISE WORLD WAR BATTLES Has Cambrai, Great German Communication Centre Al most Within Grasp By Perry Arnold (United Press Staff Correspondent) New York, Nov. 21. The greatest surprise stroke of the war, one of the greatest single strategic achievements 00n ? " m""on n'cn cnu ue of the struggle and possibly the start Vei m France. -of a victory equal in importance to the I. Th9 P' ne a11'.':8 nc Marne, is Field Marshal Haig's break-, m aoropJar.es, food and supplies and ing of the Hindenburg line, reported to- .reiterated the necessity for closest co a. oil operation in the war- Between the two north and south!. . , points mentioned in today 's official re- port, there is a distance Ul llll ICC U miles. Over this whole section the British had made an average of four miles. Haig's troops are now literally on the ' threshold of Cambrai, the vital spot in the German communications line. i The biggest town eapiurea m inei drive was Marcoing five miles south- j . -b,ows from a revoivcr two men west of Cambrai. With Anneux and who Bme ta tho aid of tho ck.rkg and Graincourt also in British hands, the cw,ape(1 witn between $40,000 and $50, Britis already have a segment approxi- 000 worth 0f diamonds and 212 in mately four miles wide in its arc, shov-lcash ed around the depot city of the German Kmployoa of the jewelry firm and an communications artery. 'optical firm adjoining were forced in- i Lavecquerc lies a little farther to the to a sman room at the back of the south of Cambrai, at the junction of jewelry store, while we bandits work two roads from Le Catellet and Fins e(j on the safe. Robert Bettner, porter, to Cambrai. i entering the store with two pails of Flesquires is a bare five miles dis-:water, looked down the barrel of two tant from Cambrai, lying just beyond gn nn,i stuck 'em up" so quickly Havrincourt, which was also stormed that the room was covered with water and captured. from the pails. The bandits refused to ' The British drive must have been an touch a tray of valuable sapphires, be overwhelming surprise to the Germans. cause they called them "phoney Ever since September 21, the British 'stuff." have been concentrating all their ef-j -forts on the lines for to the north in ' fronts between Arras and St. Quentin. the Flanders sector. . j That Haig should have been able to Haig made some localized attacks mass sufficient troops and material be there not more than three days ago. fore this German front to break the The Germany evidently figured the Brit-1 Hindenburg line at various points ish strategy -was to press this Fland-Jeven to sweep over portions of the sec ers drive unceasingly. Their lines mnst'ond line defenses without the enemy have been greatly depleted along the being aware of it, is almost a new whole of the Wotan and Sicgfriedachievement in the great war. Draft Violators Are On Way to Prison Seattle, Wash., Nov. 21. "Dr." Max Gorman and Mrs. Rose Leshen were on their way to imprisonment to day, for conspiracy to prevent execu tion of the draft law. Gorman and his agent, Mrs. Leshen, attempted to col lect $3,000 from Joseph Gottstein, well known business man, on the under standing that ho would bo made Dhvs- ically unfit for military service through in operation on his throat. Federal Judtro Jeremiah Neternr sentenced Gorniun to spend ton years in MciNen island federal penitentiary And Mm T.putinn tn ir n Anfl flna nnA go to Pierce county jail for six months. ppeuring oeiore mo court late Monday, both defendants personally annealed fnr lonioncv. Hprlnrtnrr fhnv carried out their plan to dctormine wnetner or not tne ncn were gaining exemptions through fraud. Gottstein reported the conspiracy to federal authorities and through his testimony tho pair landed in the fed eral net. FIRST MILLION MErf FROM UNITED STATES AWAITEDANX!OUSLY Additional Shipping Promised Will Also Be Appreciated By Our Allies London, Nov. 21. ( England lpoks anxiously for the day whon America's "first million men'' shall bo in France and when America's first (5,- 000,000 tons of shipping shall sail tho seas, bringing more men, more muni tions, more supplies, in the common cause against autocracy. The hope of an early realization of these plans, as expressed by Premier Lloyd Georgo in his speech opening tho British-American war conference, was re-echoed throughout England today. It served again to omphasizo the Brit ish public's realization of the vast im- petus which America will give to the allied war machine and to tho Ameri cans here, at least, it also served as a reminder of the gigantic task to which ho United States has set itself. With Lloyd George's speech open ing the conference, the representatives of the tiwo governments bent to work to speed up the realization of the pre mier's hopes and aspirations. Foremost under discussion was the British plea for acceleration of Am erica's concentration of fighting men at the front. From Lloyd George 's words, it was evident England hopes for all speed in this mobilization.. "Like Britain," the premier said, "the United States is a pacific power and she, therefore, has had to build up a- war organization from the start. In doing so she can learn from many mistakes which Britain made. Two of the most urgent matters today are man power at the fronts and shipping. "The collapse of Russia and the re verses of Italy make it even more im iperative than before that the United States should send as many troops as possible across the Atlantic as early as possible. I am anxious to know how Jiim3?aD0!lS KODDerS I - W I f f M m wake men nam ioaay -Minneapolis, Minn., Nov. 21. Three unmasked men today entered Harry Green's jewelry store, in the heart of the downtown district, held two clerks A. . . t -..i,..r. -n. Front of About Eighteen Miles Gives Way Before Surprise Attack and Thousands of Prisoners With Vast Qjianliiies of Munitions Are Captured Cambrai, Great Railroad Center Almost Within Grasp of British GeneralThird Army Under General Sir Man Byng Breaks lEsdecbsrg Line Tanks Prepare Way for Advancing Infantry By Ed L. Keen, . (United Press Staff Correspondent) London, Nov. 21. Field Marshal Haig has broken the Hindenburg line. At various points over a front of at least a score of miles, the British commander-in-chief today reported his troops had smashed their wav for a distance of between four and five miles from the first defenses of the vaunted Hindenburg line. The second line more than a mile behind the prelim inary defenses was also stormed by the victorious Tommies: v Tanks battered down the" German defenses, crumbled away some of the artfully contrived German cement em placements and ponderously drove forward in advance of the artillery. Cambrai is now almost in the hands of the British. The importance of the victory ..cannot, as yet, be fully estimated. Not only has the Hindenburg line been penetrated and at least two of its lines utterly destroyed, but the British now directly menace the main German line of communica tions Douai, Cambrai and St. Quentin. The surprise of the British drive, coupled with its over powering force, was so complete and the German demoral ization so utter that official reports did not attempt to estimate the number of prisoners taken nor the quantity of guns, supplies and ammunition. Field Marshal Haig departed from the custom of with holding the names of generals immediately in charge of operations in his statement today, giving General Sir Julian Byng and his third army the credit of the brilliant achievement. HAIG'S POWERFUL STROKE Field Marshal Haig's terrific smash, breaking the Hinden burg line, resulted in the cap ture of four towns, two villages a hamlet, an important ridge, three woods, and the strong po sitions along the road from' Ba paume to Cambrai. He also sent his troops across the Masniers canal. Marcoing, Havrincourt, Fle squires, Lavecquerc, towns; Graincourt and Anneux, villages, and the hamlet of Bonaires are now in British hands. The Welsh ridge, formidably fortified, fell and tho Soutellet wood, Neuf wood succumbed to the British advance OVEE 5000 PEI30NEE3. London, Nov. 21. Front dis patches hero this afternoon said more than 5,000 prisoners were taken yesterday in Field Mar shal Haig's great victory. By William Philip Simms (United Press Staff Correspondent) With the British Armies in the Field Nov. 21. The strangest battle in the world's history was that by which the British today smashed the Hindenburg line. There has been no other battle like t in Mthe annals of warfare. Only the wooden horso of Troy offers a com parison with Haig 's blow in tactical or iginality. General Pcrshine. eommander-in-chief of the American army in France, wit nessed this most staggering of all the blows which the British have launch ed against the enemy. At a moment when tne worm woe saying that surprise attacks in this war were no longer possible when the Prussians were thinking the same thing , and sleeping soundly in their comfort ablo dugouts, without the faintest sus picion that anything was brewing j British army tanks, leading British in i fantry, rose up from tho ground like 1 ground liko magic and swung to the at ! tack. j There was no artillery preparation, j The lumbering tanks diu tne pulveriz ung of tho way. They blazed the trail, their gigantically ponderous paths of fering tree entrance to the infantry im mediately behind. They crashed over wire entanglements, over artfully con cealed Chevaux do Fnse, over trenches themselves and the walking Tommies followed. Britain's victory came after a pre liminary advance Tuesday morning. It was then, under black skies, that the tanks lumbered forward as the new barrage for the infantry. Wednesday completed the triumph. Prisoners pouring back of the lines totlny were still dazed with the sur prise of the attack. Surprise Was Complete. Ther are utterly flabbergasted. Not 'an officer-nor man had the slightest : idea the British could possibly strike on their quiet sector at a time when it was supposed every ounce of Britain's strength was conccut rated in Flanders. Since the battle of Arras, the Cam brai sector has dozed iu peace and quiet. The lino seemed impregnable. The Ger mans had heard that so often they were certain of it. They were confident that it would take weeks of high explosives shell preparation and wire cutting ex peditions, as well as unprecedented barrages ,to do the trick. So they dozed and slept and took life eaay in the German lines. There was practically no artillery fire felt from the British side "the Engl'scher sch wein" were too busy with their con centrated guns at Passehendaole, and besides they didn't have enough guns to concentrate, go why worry f That (Coutiauod on paga three)